From 1f75eb703c1fbfd5d5ca683c618ea1a3bbd63600 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dirk H Bartley Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:29:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- bacula/src/qt-console/help/restore.html | 19 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) 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. -

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. -

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. -

The Version Browser Restore Interface

+

A Version Browser Limitation

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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. + +

The Version Browser Restore Interface

This restore interface is NOT intended to perform major restores of directory structures with large numbers of directories and files. It should work, however -- 2.39.5