Important upgrade for Win32 FD

Hello,

I *strongly* recommend that you upgrade to the Win32-Beta version 1.35.9
that I have just released to Source Forge. It has a workaround for a
segmentation fault in the Microsoft runtime library localtime_r(). The
segmentation fault occurs when Bacula is listing the information about
files restored, and is fatal to the restore process.

This problem occurs only if you have files with a "bad" time, perhaps
due to a transfer from one timezone to another. Anytime you load a file,
you could potentially create such a file. To know if you have this
problem, run:

 estimate listing job=xxx

where xxx is the name of one of your Win32 backup Jobs. It will produce
lots of output, but if the FD crashes you have the problem. To suppress
the output in the tty console use:

 @output /dev/null
 estimate listing job=xxx
 @output

This version of the FD is compatible with all versions 1.34.x and all
1.35.x.  One additional advantage is that this version of the Win32 FD
is able to backup all non-exclusively opened files, while previous
versions could not backup any open file. There are, unfortunately, some
files that cannot be backed up. It is possible to backup *all* files on
WinXP and higher systems but only through secret Microsoft APIs that
appear to be available only to privileged business partners and not to
developers such as myself -- I hope you are suitably outraged. More on
that later.

I want to thank everyone who has tested this version, in particular
Frank for bringing the problem to my attention again and testing it, and
to Karl Cunningham for tracking the problem down to a limited set of
files and for doing a lot of testing. This bug was particularly evasive
because who would suspect a seg fault in the system localtime_r()
function -- at least some Microsoft programmers have not learned to
check function return values before indexing with them!

Best regards, Kern



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