[Box Backup] Restore Symlinks

[Andreas Schrafl]

As I wrote the compress test for 0.10 failes:

compress: FAILED: Exception caught: St9bad_alloc

this on 2 different i386 boxes running obsd 4.0

any idea?

Ben Summers wrote:
> 
> Do the tests for 0.10 pass on that box? Something's not quite right there.
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> On 31 Oct 2006, at 17:52, Andreas Schrafl wrote:
> 
>> The problem occurred when restoring to a OpenBSD 4.0 box.
>> The server was is a OpenBSD 3.9 machine. As I reported when running 
>> the restore on a windows it works.
>> I also tried to restore to the server so no OS differences there (the 
>> machine that was backuped was 3.7 but that should not be of any 
>> interest for a backup application)
>>
>> I've run ./runtest.pl ALL on the server (where I compiled the files) 
>> for the 0.09 and the 0.10 version:
>>
>> 0.09:
>> PASSED
>> Block 7c6723c0 freed, but not known. Error? Or allocated in startup 
>> static allocation?
>> --------
>> common: PASSED
>> crypto: PASSED
>> compress: FAILED: Exception caught: St9bad_alloc
>> basicserver: PASSED
>> raidfile: PASSED
>> backupstore: Block 8bd9b200 freed, but not known. Error? Or allocated 
>> in startup static allocation?
>> backupstorefix: PASSED
>> backupstorepatch: Block 7fa751c0 freed, but not known. Error? Or 
>> allocated in startup static allocation?
>> backupdiff: Block 7e6f5000 freed, but not known. Error? Or allocated 
>> in startup static allocation?
>> bbackupd: Block 7c6723c0 freed, but not known. Error? Or allocated in 
>> startup static allocation?
>>
>>
>> 0.10:
>> PASSED
>> --------
>> common: PASSED
>> crypto: PASSED
>> compress: FAILED: Exception caught: St9bad_alloc
>> basicserver: PASSED
>> raidfile: PASSED
>> backupstore: PASSED
>> backupstorefix: PASSED
>> backupstorepatch: PASSED
>> backupdiff: PASSED
>> bbackupd: PASSED
>>
>> So there seem to be some issues. I'm not sure what they mean (not a 
>> programmer) but perhaps you all can tell me.
>>
>> Ben Summers wrote:
>>> Andy
>>> What platform are you using?
>>> Could you run the tests on your client, and see if you get any 
>>> failures? Symlink support is explicitly tested with a backup and 
>>> restore cycle.
>>> Ben
>>> On 30 Oct 2006, at 15:04, Andreas Schrafl wrote:
>>>> I'm very glad I used BoxBackup. Saved all my data after a raid 
>>>> crashed and the restore shreddered the data that was left.
>>>>
>>>> Now I encountered some problem while restoring concerning symlinks.
>>>>
>>>> Simply it didn't restore them. I had several symlinks like form one 
>>>> directory to an other (same mountpoint). These symlink just would 
>>>> not be restored.
>>>>
>>>> One symlink even crashed the bbackupquery session repeatedly and so 
>>>> I had to restore everything surrounding this directory separately.
>>>> I tried to fix it on the server (checking the account and fixing it) 
>>>> but there were no errors so nothing to fix.
>>>>
>>>> I extracted this directory to a windows machinne and there it just 
>>>> skipped these files.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps this got fixed lately (still using 0.09 but I could not find 
>>>> anything on this topic).
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the nice backuptool it really is simple an useful.
>>>> Andy
>>>>
>>>> PS: are there any special things to look out for when updating a 
>>>> server from 0.09 to 0.10?
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