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  • Bacula does not like symbolic links

    Our Mailservers use a separate disk to store the mailboxes.
    These are mounted on a folder, but most commonly used via a symbolic link that points to this folder.

    This is where bacula gets stuck.
    It creates the symbolic link, which is invalid due to the temporaty restore location and then crashes because it cannot create the files and directories.

    To solve this, manually create the symbolic link location, but do not create it as a link, create it as a folder.
    This is probably a miss-configuration on our side, but it might be a problem nontheless.

    Example:
    Mail location: /var/spool/mail
    Link: /var/mail
    Bacula backs up: /var/mail
    Manually create /tmp/bacula-restores/var/mail/ to have a successfull restore.

    Published on January 4, 2008 · Filed under: Hosting, Servers,...;

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