I was able to schedule a job to backup the State information (with a bunch of OS files, 6.7GB on a new system) and I upgraded bacula to V3.0.2 so that I could perform a VSS backup. I eventually got this working and I have what appears to be a successful backup.
When I try to restore, I get lots of errors like: 06-Oct 15:23 dhcp010000080047-fd JobId 19705: Error: /home/kern/bacula/k/src/filed/restore.c:1000 Write error on c:/Users/smooney/Recent/: The directory is not empty. 06-Oct 15:23 dhcp010000080047-fd JobId 19705: Error: /home/kern/bacula/k/src/filed/restore.c:1000 Write error on c:/Users/smooney/SendTo/: The directory is not empty. 06-Oct 15:23 dhcp010000080047-fd JobId 19705: Error: /home/kern/bacula/k/src/filed/restore.c:1000 Write error on c:/Users/smooney/Start Menu/: The directory is not empty. This is especially interesting since I am doing the restore on a fresh OS install, so the user smooney does not exist before doing the restore. Thinking this was just a problem with Windows "junctions" -- the short-cuts that look like folders, I went ahead & did a Windows restore of the State. After rebooting, the applications (specifically MSSQL) seem to be working (an improvement over the restoring the backup made without VSS), but user settings are messed up. The short-cuts on the start-bar (Server Manager, IE, etc.) exist with labels when I hover over them, but the icons are the generic blank-paper, and they don't do anything. None of the items in the Start menu work either (Properties shows no Target for the links). It could also be a bad backup. bacula-fd is running as the local System account, but the backup has errors like: 06-Oct 02:23 weston-fd JobId 19696: Cannot open "c:/ProgramData/Application Data/Microsoft/RAC/StateData/RACREPCATALOG": ERR=A required privilege is not held by the client. 06-Oct 02:24 weston-fd JobId 19696: Could not open directory "c:/Users/Default User/Start Menu": ERR=Access is denied. Adding System to the Backup Operators group did not seem to make any difference. It seems to get these errors every time, not intermittently like the posts in 2008 complained about. Am I doing something wrong? I'm having trouble finding any clues in the documentation or on the internet. The only work-around I can think of is to use wbadmin to dump the entire C drive and not bother backing up the C drive with bacula; I'm setting up a test now to see if even that will help. Running Bacula v3.0.2 Director & Storage Daemon running on RedHat 5 server. File Daemon running on Windows 2008 Server Standard running in a VMWare virtual machine (Running on a RedHat 5 host). -Gary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
