Greetings, I have been evaluating Bacula for the School District I work for as a backup option for our Windows 2003 Servers. I like many of the features Bacula has compared to other solutions. I have been testing with 2.0.3 with the director on a linux box, a storage daemon on a Windows 2003 box, and a file daemon on an XP box. I installed the Linux portion from RPMs and the Windows client with the windows installer.
I have it configured to do Disk backups. The first couple of days, everything worked OK with small backups without much change (~100 MB full, 1-2 MB incremental). Then I switched to a larger amount of files (~28 GB with ~800 MB of change per day). Now the FD seems to hang up. Here are the symptoms: If I start off a fresh boot, the first backup on this machine will work fine. If I do not reboot the computer, or kill the bacula-fd and vssvc.exe processes, the next backup will do one of two things: 1) Backup all the way to the end, and just hang or 2) Not start the backup at all and sit at 0 Bytes/files I can break this cycle by killing the vssvc.exe process (Volume Shadow Copy). Then the backup finishes successfully, and incidentally vssvc.exe start again. If it hung at the beginning, it will generally give a warning or error that VSS could not start and the backup will be done without VSS. One thing that seems odd is that the vssvc.exe process is always running, even when there isn't a backup running. When I look at our servers that are running the MS backup utility, vssvc.exe is only running while a backup is in progress. For our implementation, I really need to be able to use VSS, so I have not tried it with VSS disabled. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks Mike Gerszewski ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
