On mercredi, 18 mai 2016 15.35:16 h CEST Arjen Van Drie wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> we continuously get "Connection reset by peer" if we try to backup a few 
> GB from a w2k3 guest on VirtualBox. Tests show that a similar OS on KVM 
> works well: we assume virtualbox is the culprit. We tried different 
> virtual network adapters, playing with BareOS buffers and bandwidth. No 
> success.
> 
> We cannot migrate now, so the idea is:
> 
> - cifs-mount in autofs a couiple of shares from the w2k3 guest on the 
> hypervisor over local host-only network
> - put symlinks to the autofs mountpoints
> - point bareos to the symlinks for the backup.
> 
> Now, bareos only backups the symlinks, and not the files on the mounted 
> share. We also tried /path/to/symlink/*. This results in no such file or 
> dir.
> 
> Since the above did not work, we tried pointing bareos to the 
> mountpoints itself. This does work.
> 
> Now I expect to have files, but no windows metadata such as permissions. 
> I also expect not to be able to restore to windows, but only via the 
> linux cifs mounts.
> 
> Is there a way to make this work according to y'all, or should we leave 
> this idea right away ? Any other comments on this? Any experience with 
> w2k3, virtualbox and bareos backups ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Arjen Van Drie.
> 
> 

You can use version 14x which work on w2k3 
perhaps you have less option than newer build. but having a native client will 
be always better.

Did you try the heartbeat parameter ?

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