Re: [Bacula-users] bacula and curlftpfs 0.9.2 does not work (anymore)

Hi Karsten and others,

I have encountered the same issue some time ago, too.
Did you ever find a solution/workaround/alternative for it?
I would be very interested!

Cheers,
Dennis

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On Wednesday 6 January 2010 21:31 Karsten Schulze wrote:
> I believe that bacula does not work anymore with curlftpfs (version 0.9.2).
> I have found several reports which describe a similar behavior.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curlftpfs/+bug/367091
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/curlftpfs/forums/forum/542750/topic/3295831
>
> Finally I "found" the release notes of curlftpfs 0.9.2:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=602461
> "Be aware that some applications might not be able to "save" files on
> curlftpfs from 0.9.2 on, because we don't support open(read+write) or
> open(write) and seek anymore."
>
> I have written a small program to test this functionality. You can use
> it to verify your environment.
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <string.h>
>
>   int main(void) {
>     //FILE *fp = fopen("/home/bacula/test","w+b");
>     //works fine (without curlftpfs)
>     //FILE *fp = fopen("/home/bacula/archive/Daten/Backup/test","a+b");
>     //create flags: 0x442 /Daten/Backup/test 0100644 umask=0000
>     //ftpfs: operation ftpfs_open failed because Operation not supported
>     //FILE *fp = fopen("/home/bacula/archive/Daten/Backup/test","a+");
>     //create flags: 0x442 /Daten/Backup/test 0100644 umask=0000
>     //ftpfs: operation ftpfs_open failed because Operation not supported
>     //FILE *fp = fopen("/home/bacula/archive/Daten/Backup/test","w+");
>     //create flags: 0x242 /Daten/Backup/test 0100644 umask=0000
>     //ftpfs: operation ftpfs_open failed because Operation not supported
>     FILE *fp = fopen("/home/bacula/archive/Daten/Backup/test","w+b");
>     //create flags: 0x242 /Daten/Backup/test 0100644 umask=0000
>     //ftpfs: operation ftpfs_open failed because Operation not supported
>
>     fprintf(stdout, "I try to open file\n");
>     if(fp==NULL)
>     {
>       fprintf(stdout,"Error: can't open file.\n");
>       return 1;
>     }
>     else {
>       char str[40];
>       int i;
>
>       strcpy(str,"somecharacters");
>       printf("File opened successfully. Writing....\n\n");
>       for (i=0;i<8;i++) {
>         fputc(str[i],fp);
>       }
>     }
>     fclose(fp);
>     return 0;
>   }
>
> I would recommend that the documentation of bacula should mention this
> incompatibility.
> Using a ftp service you have to find an alternative (which one?)
>
> Br, Karsten

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