From: Dirk H Bartley <dbartley@schupan.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:29:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Remove limitation discussion of regular restore.  State limitation of finding
X-Git-Tag: Release-3.0.0~116
X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e8e283e2c7a8229a7163927a9628418aae452f83;p=bacula%2Fbacula

Remove limitation discussion of regular restore.  State limitation of finding
a file not contained in a directory.


git-svn-id: https://bacula.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/bacula/trunk@8586 91ce42f0-d328-0410-95d8-f526ca767f89
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diff --git a/bacula/src/qt-console/help/restore.html b/bacula/src/qt-console/help/restore.html
index 400e807187..6aaf93e772 100644
--- a/bacula/src/qt-console/help/restore.html
+++ b/bacula/src/qt-console/help/restore.html
@@ -40,11 +40,6 @@ incremental backups done since the most recent full or differential.  Then the
 server uses this set of jobs to create a file structure that is the
 most recent version of each file found in this job list.
 
-<p>After the select box OK button has been pressed, a limitation in bat
-occurs that will be resolved in the future.  The restore process takes control
-of the connection to the server and does not allow any other communication to
-the server by any other interface.
-
 <p>The second interface allows the user to browse this file structure and
 choose the files and directories to restore.  This is done in an explorer
 type interface with a directory tree on the left.  In the right pane of a
@@ -59,12 +54,16 @@ opens that directory.  Clicking 'OK' completes the selection process.
 user to inform the bacula server details of the host and path to restore to, the
 replacement rules, when to restore and what priority to give the restore job.
 
-<h2>The Version Browser Restore Interface</h2>
+<h2>A Version Browser Limitation</h2>
 
-<p>The Version Browser restore option does not have the same connection
-limitations as the standard restore during the file and directory selection
-process.  The user can have an unlimited number of selection windows open at a
-time for viewing the cataloged jobs, directories, files and versions.
+There is an important limitation of the version browser.  If a fileset
+specifically points to a file instead of a directory that contains files, it
+will not be seen in the version browser.  This is due to the way that the
+version browser searches for directories first, then for files contained in
+those directories.  A common example is with the catalog job.
+It by default points directly to one file created in a databse dump.
+
+<h2>The Version Browser Restore Interface</h2>
 
 <p>This restore interface is <b>NOT</b> intended to perform major restores of directory
 structures with large numbers of directories and files.  It should work, however