Re: [Bacula-devel] windows and restoring compressed folders

[Kern S. <ke...@si...>]

On 05/21/2012 07:58 AM, James Harper wrote:
> I just did a restore of a server C: drive and it didn't fit. The backed up drive was 50GB with 5GB free, and the target drive is 50GB and the restore runs out of space with a few thousand files to go. None of the C:\Windows\$NtUninstallXxx directories have their compressed flag set anymore so I'm guessing that's the reason - the compressed flag hasn't been set during the restore.
>
> Is that a known bug? The backup was done on a fairly old fd (5.2.0 I think) but the restore is to 5.2.6.

As long as you have not turned off vss, since we use BackupRead() and
BackupWrite() Bacula should restore pretty much anything
that was there during the backup with the exception of encrypted files.
If handling compressed files requires some special API calls like 
encryption,
then it is a "bug" in that it is not implemented.

Best regards,
Kern