Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 09:51 +1000, James Harper wrote: With full VSS support, VSS defines the files that make up the system state backup - So are we saying with VSS support in bacula switched on you can backup windows 2008 including the system state, and more importantly can you restore the system state during a full restore. anyone done this can confirm it works it's a flag on the writer. Bacula handles junction points perfectly. Sent from my iPhone On 11/05/2010, at 4:13, Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.com wrote: There is no such thing as system state backup any more in Windows 2008. It's always the whole C: drive. I'm not sure how well bacula handles it in the end. There also is the issue that Windows 2008 relies heavily on junction points, which bacula doesn't handle well. I'm using Windows backup to an iSCSI drive, and then use bacula to back up a snapshot of that iSCSI volume. -Original Message- From: Michael Da Cova [mailto:mdac...@equiinet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:47 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup Hi anyone have any tips recommendation on how to backup and restore windows 2008 system state, do you need to if using VSS Michael --- --- --- - ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- --- --- - ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
I am doing a Windows 2008 backup with vss support enabled. The system state is backed up using wbadmin utility and then saved to bacula. Regarding the junction points, i have hundred of warnings each time i make a backup with bacula, i don´t know how to avoid this and ,like Michael, i am very interesting in how to solve it... On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Michael Da Cova mdac...@equiinet.comwrote: On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 09:51 +1000, James Harper wrote: With full VSS support, VSS defines the files that make up the system state backup - So are we saying with VSS support in bacula switched on you can backup windows 2008 including the system state, and more importantly can you restore the system state during a full restore. anyone done this can confirm it works it's a flag on the writer. Bacula handles junction points perfectly. Sent from my iPhone On 11/05/2010, at 4:13, Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.com wrote: There is no such thing as system state backup any more in Windows 2008. It's always the whole C: drive. I'm not sure how well bacula handles it in the end. There also is the issue that Windows 2008 relies heavily on junction points, which bacula doesn't handle well. I'm using Windows backup to an iSCSI drive, and then use bacula to back up a snapshot of that iSCSI volume. -Original Message- From: Michael Da Cova [mailto:mdac...@equiinet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:47 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup Hi anyone have any tips recommendation on how to backup and restore windows 2008 system state, do you need to if using VSS Michael --- --- --- - ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- --- --- - ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:51:52AM +1000, James Harper wrote: With full VSS support, VSS defines the files that make up the system state backup - it's a flag on the writer. Bacula handles junction points perfectly. So, to get a backup with Windows 2008 that includes the system state, you need to set a flag on the writer. Do you know how to set that flag? Sent from my iPhone On 11/05/2010, at 4:13, Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.com wrote: There is no such thing as system state backup any more in Windows 2008. It's always the whole C: drive. I'm not sure how well bacula handles it in the end. There also is the issue that Windows 2008 relies heavily on junction points, which bacula doesn't handle well. I'm using Windows backup to an iSCSI drive, and then use bacula to back up a snapshot of that iSCSI volume. -Original Message- From: Michael Da Cova [mailto:mdac...@equiinet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:47 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup Hi anyone have any tips recommendation on how to backup and restore windows 2008 system state, do you need to if using VSS Michael --- --- --- - ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- --- --- - ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
On 05/11/10 10:04 AM, Graham Keeling wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:51:52AM +1000, James Harper wrote: With full VSS support, VSS defines the files that make up the system state backup - it's a flag on the writer. Bacula handles junction points perfectly. So, to get a backup with Windows 2008 that includes the system state, you need to set a flag on the writer. Do you know how to set that flag? wbadmin can do system state backups - you do not need to set any VSS flags for that : wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backuptarget:C: -quiet If you are storing your system state backup on C you'll need to apply the reg fix as pointed out in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944530 first. Simply put, Windows programs can register as 'VSS writers' and then get informed whenever a VSS snapshot is requested and act on that. Sent from my iPhone On 11/05/2010, at 4:13, Kevin Keanesubscript...@kkeane.com wrote: There is no such thing as system state backup any more in Windows 2008. It's always the whole C: drive. I'm not sure how well bacula handles it in the end. There also is the issue that Windows 2008 relies heavily on junction points, which bacula doesn't handle well. I'm using Windows backup to an iSCSI drive, and then use bacula to back up a snapshot of that iSCSI volume. -Original Message- From: Michael Da Cova [mailto:mdac...@equiinet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:47 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup Hi anyone have any tips recommendation on how to backup and restore windows 2008 system state, do you need to if using VSS Michael -- Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards Henrik Johansen hen...@scannet.dk Tlf. 75 53 35 00 ScanNet Group A/S ScanNet -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] copy jobs and scratch pools
2010/5/6 c.kesch...@internet-mit-iq.de
Hi,
I'm having a problem copying jobs. I labeled a new volume in the pool
DailyScratch with the label command. Then I ran a job using the pool
ThursdayOD. As expected, bacula took the volume from the Scratch Pool and
moved it to the other pool. Backup ran without errors, list volumes shows
that the volume is in the ThursdayOD pool.
But now when I start the copyjob I just get an error:
06-Mai 13:05 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: No Next Pool specification
found in Pool DailyScratch.
Chris,
which copy job did you run? none is defined below
It wouldn't make much sense to define the Next Pool in the Scratch Pool as
that will be used by several pools. I would have expected bacula to use the
Next Pool directive from the ThursdayOD configuration as that is where the
volume is in. Is this a bug or am I missing something?
Relevant configuration:
JobDefs {
Name = CopyDefault
Type = Copy
Messages = Standard
Storage = usbchanger2
Client = None
FileSet = None
Selection Type = PoolUncopiedJobs
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10
SpoolData = No
Allow Duplicate Jobs = Yes
Cancel Queued Duplicates = No
Cancel Running Duplicates = No
Priority = 11
}
Pool {
Name = DailyScratch
Pool Type = Backup
}
Pool {
Name = Thursday
Pool Type = Backup
Storage = usbchanger1
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 5 days
Maximum Volume Bytes = 4608M
}
Pool {
Name = ThursdayOD
Pool Type = Backup
Storage = File
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 12 hours
Maximum Volume Bytes = 4608M
ScratchPool = DailyScratch
Recycle Pool = DailyScratch
NextPool = Thursday
}
Chris
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Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
On Tue, 11 May 2010 01:51:52 +0200, James Harper james.har...@bendigoit.com.au wrote: With full VSS support, VSS defines the files that make up the system state backup - it's a flag on the writer. Bacula handles junction points perfectly. Does this also go for W2K3 now, i.e. is this a feature of Bacula 5.x, or of W2K8? At least I haven't succeeded in backing up junction points properly under W2K3 yet (e.g. .net dirs), they are backed up as physical files and on a restore replace junction points (and therefore probably break stuff on an update). My understanding so far was that it's best to manually reinstall .net (and any other similar stuff) for this reason. -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
|-Original Message- |From: Henrik Johansen [mailto:hen...@scannet.dk] |Sent: 11 May 2010 9:11 AM |To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net |Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup | |On 05/11/10 10:04 AM, Graham Keeling wrote: | On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:51:52AM +1000, James Harper wrote: | With full VSS support, VSS defines the files that make up the system | state backup - it's a flag on the writer. Bacula handles junction | points perfectly. | | So, to get a backup with Windows 2008 that includes the system state, you |need | to set a flag on the writer. | Do you know how to set that flag? | |wbadmin can do system state backups - you do not need to set any VSS |flags for that : | |wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backuptarget:C: -quiet | |If you are storing your system state backup on C you'll need to apply |the reg fix as pointed out in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944530 first. | |Simply put, Windows programs can register as 'VSS writers' and then get |informed whenever a VSS snapshot is requested and act on that. [MDC] Thanks for the above very useful, just need to confirm that Bacula cannot do a system state backup just using VSS | | | Sent from my iPhone | | On 11/05/2010, at 4:13, Kevin Keanesubscript...@kkeane.com wrote: | | There is no such thing as system state backup any more in Windows | 2008. It's always the whole C: drive. I'm not sure how well bacula | handles it in the end. There also is the issue that Windows 2008 | relies heavily on junction points, which bacula doesn't handle well. | | I'm using Windows backup to an iSCSI drive, and then use bacula to | back up a snapshot of that iSCSI volume. | | -Original Message- | From: Michael Da Cova [mailto:mdac...@equiinet.com] | Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:47 AM | To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net | Subject: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup | | Hi | | anyone have any tips recommendation on how to backup and restore | windows | 2008 system state, do you need to if using VSS | | Michael | | |-- |Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards | |Henrik Johansen |hen...@scannet.dk |Tlf. 75 53 35 00 | |ScanNet Group |A/S ScanNet | |--- |--- | |___ |Bacula-users mailing list |Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net |https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
Regarding the junction points, i have hundred of warnings each time i make a backup with bacula, i don´t know how to avoid this and ,like Michael, i am very interesting in how to solve it... What are the warnings? Is it the one about 'different filesystem'? James -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Bacula slow, possibly network
Hi, we've come over from an Amanda backup system which had become a nightmare to administer, and generally we're very happy with Bacula. My concern thought is speed: Bacula is proving to be very slow, possibly in relation - it seems - to its network utilisation. We're backing up over a managed 100Mbps LAN, so not lightning-fast, but ought to be ok for 400Gb overnight full weekly backup and typically 5Gb nightly differential. Although the methodology of Bacula and Amanda are different, I'm fairly certain Amanda was much, much faster at backing up over a network than could deal with this quite well. I kicked off a [400Gb, full] bacup at 1am on Saturday and it completed 11 hours later at mid-day. Interestingly, I just noticed that the Bacula dir was able to reel off a backup of the fd on localhost of about 750Mb in under 10 seconds, which is why I'm looking towards the way Bacula uses the network as the possible source of the problem. Conversely, a differential of 6Mb from a client on the local LAN just took a few minutes to complete. Another possibility is spooling. I've set up a spool directory on the director/sd but have never seen it used. Relatedly, the tape drive during backups is very stop/start, with a lot of pauses. We're using an HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 with LTO-3 tapes. The dir/sd is a PowerEdge running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and the supported Bacula 2.2.8. The clients are running Ubuntu LTS and Redhat EL5 across a 100Mbps LAN. I am not using TLS encryption for these servers, although I will be using it soon for backing up two more servers across the internet. Any thoughts would be gratefully received. Martin. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Bacula-slow%2C-possibly-network-tp28521328p28521328.html Sent from the Bacula - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
Hello
I use this little script on weekly basis before bacula backup
wbadmin delete systemstatebackup -backupTarget:e: -keepVersions:0 -quiet
wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backupTarget:e: -quiet
Wbadmin saves several system states, and in my case with the last one is
engouh (Bacula store several copies)
Regarding the error/warning on junction points. Bacula tries to backup
folders that not fisically exists.
In the Job log i can see error/warnings like this (with VSS enabled):
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/AppData/Local/Temporary Internet Files: ERR=Access is
denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Application Data: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Cookies: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Documents/My Music: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Documents/My Pictures: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Documents/My Videos: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Local Settings: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/My Documents: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/NetHood: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Cannot open c:/Documents and
Settings/username/NTUSER.DAT: ERR=A required privilege is not held by the
client.
.
servername JobId 643: Cannot open c:/Documents and
Settings/username/ntuser.dat.LOG1: ERR=A required privilege is not held by
the client.
.
servername JobId 643: Cannot open c:/Documents and
Settings/username/NTUSER.DAT{7d5ec63a-c5bc-11dc-a02b-0019bbe6a65a}.TM.blf:
ERR=A required privilege is not held by the client.
.
servername JobId 643: Cannot open c:/Documents and
Settings/username/NTUSER.DAT{7d5ec63a-c5bc-11dc-a02b-0019bbe6a65a}.TMContainer0001.regtrans-ms:
ERR=A required privilege is not held by the client.
.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/PrintHood: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Recent: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/SendTo: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Start Menu: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Templates: ERR=Access is denied.
I have checked that c:\users is saved correctly (is the correct folder
name),then i think that is a bug in bacula (is noisy, because job finish
status is no ok).
I have no time to make a full restore and i don´t know if with a Bacula
backup and windows System State is possible on windows 2008. I am very
grateful if someone that test it post his conclusions.
Regards
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:15 PM, James Harper
james.har...@bendigoit.com.au wrote:
Regarding the junction points, i have hundred of warnings each time i
make a
backup with bacula, i don´t know how to avoid this and ,like Michael, i
am
very interesting in how to solve it...
What are the warnings? Is it the one about 'different filesystem'?
James
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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula slow, possibly network
Am Tue, 11 May 2010 03:47:05 -0700 schrieb martinofmoscow: Hi, we've come over from an Amanda backup system which had become a nightmare to administer, and generally we're very happy with Bacula. My concern thought is speed: Bacula is proving to be very slow, possibly in relation - it seems - to its network utilisation. We're backing up over a managed 100Mbps LAN, so not lightning-fast, but ought to be ok for 400Gb overnight full weekly backup and typically 5Gb nightly differential. Although the methodology of Bacula and Amanda are different, I'm fairly certain Amanda was much, much faster at backing up over a network than could deal with this quite well. I kicked off a [400Gb, full] bacup at 1am on Saturday and it completed 11 hours later at mid-day. Interestingly, I just noticed that the Bacula dir was able to reel off a backup of the fd on localhost of about 750Mb in under 10 seconds, which is why I'm looking towards the way Bacula uses the network as the possible source of the problem. Conversely, a differential of 6Mb from a client on the local LAN just took a few minutes to complete. Another possibility is spooling. I've set up a spool directory on the director/sd but have never seen it used. Relatedly, the tape drive during backups is very stop/start, with a lot of pauses. We're using an HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 with LTO-3 tapes. The dir/sd is a PowerEdge running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and the supported Bacula 2.2.8. The clients are running Ubuntu LTS and Redhat EL5 across a 100Mbps LAN. I am not using TLS encryption for these servers, although I will be using it soon for backing up two more servers across the internet. did you read: http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Data_Spooling.html and did you enable the SpoolData in the Job definition? the tape is likely faster than 100mbps resulting in starting/stoping alot (== slow) if data-spooling is not configured correctly. -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula slow, possibly network
Hi, On Tue, 11 May 2010, martinofmoscow wrote: I kicked off a [400Gb, full] bacup at 1am on Saturday and it completed 11 hours later at mid-day. At the risk of getting the sums wrong and looking silly: 400GB in 11 hours ~ 36GB per hour ~ 600MB per minute ~ 10MB per second ~ 82Mbit/sec There's some rough approximation there but it seems like you're not far from saturating that 100Mb link for the full 11 hours. Your bacula reports should include a transfer speed. What speed is reported (it's usually in Mbyte/sec)? Do you have a record of how long Amanda took? Interestingly, I just noticed that the Bacula dir was able to reel off a backup of the fd on localhost of about 750Mb in under 10 seconds, That's about 8MB per second which is a little slower than what you see above. The fd might not be able to write the data as quickly. Conversely, a differential of 6Mb from a client on the local LAN just took a few minutes to complete. That's slow in terms of network bitrate, but with a differential or incremental backup, the bottleneck is usually in the time to find what files need to be transferred, not in the time to transfer the files. Another possibility is spooling. I've set up a spool directory on the director/sd but have never seen it used. Relatedly, the tape drive during backups is very stop/start, with a lot of pauses. I'd say without an upgrade to GigE, you're not likely to massively improve the rate you have. It's unclear at the moment if the bottleneck is the network or Gavin -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
Hi all
Sorry for the top post, and thanks for replying so far but I just need a
simple question answered if you don't mind
Does Bacula with VSS support on backup windows 2008 system state
Michael
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Sent: 11 May 2010 11:50 AM
To: James Harper
Cc: mdac...@equiinet.com; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
Hello
I use this little script on weekly basis before bacula backup
wbadmin delete systemstatebackup -backupTarget:e: -keepVersions:0 -quiet
wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backupTarget:e: -quiet
Wbadmin saves several system states, and in my case with the last one is
engouh (Bacula store several copies)
Regarding the error/warning on junction points. Bacula tries to backup
folders that not fisically exists.
In the Job log i can see error/warnings like this (with VSS enabled):
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/AppData/Local/Temporary Internet Files: ERR=Access is
denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Application Data: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Cookies: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Documents/My Music: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Documents/My Pictures: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Documents/My Videos: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Local Settings: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/My Documents: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/NetHood: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Cannot open c:/Documents and
Settings/username/NTUSER.DAT: ERR=A required privilege is not held by the
client.
.
servername JobId 643: Cannot open c:/Documents and
Settings/username/ntuser.dat.LOG1: ERR=A required privilege is not held by
the client.
.
servername JobId 643: Cannot open c:/Documents and
Settings/username/NTUSER.DAT{7d5ec63a-c5bc-11dc-a02b-0019bbe6a65a}.TM.blf:
ERR=A required privilege is not held by the client.
.
servername JobId 643: Cannot open c:/Documents and
Settings/username/NTUSER.DAT{7d5ec63a-c5bc-11dc-a02b-0019bbe6a65a}.TMContain
er0001.regtrans-ms: ERR=A required privilege is not held by
the client.
.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/PrintHood: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Recent: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/SendTo: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Start Menu: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Templates: ERR=Access is denied.
I have checked that c:\users is saved correctly (is the correct folder
name),then i think that is a bug in bacula (is noisy, because job finish
status is no ok).
I have no time to make a full restore and i don´t know if with a Bacula
backup and windows System State is possible on windows 2008. I am very
grateful if someone that test it post his conclusions.
Regards
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:15 PM, James Harper
james.har...@bendigoit.com.au mailto:james.har...@bendigoit.com.au
wrote:
Regarding the junction points, i have hundred of warnings each time i make
a
backup with bacula, i don´t know how to avoid this and ,like Michael, i am
very interesting in how to solve it...
What are the warnings? Is it the one about 'different filesystem'?
James
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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula slow, possibly network
Thanks Gavin, that's very defly surmised! I guess we were misunderstanding what Amanda was/wasn't doing previously. Gavin McCullagh-2 wrote: Hi, On Tue, 11 May 2010, martinofmoscow wrote: I kicked off a [400Gb, full] bacup at 1am on Saturday and it completed 11 hours later at mid-day. At the risk of getting the sums wrong and looking silly: 400GB in 11 hours ~ 36GB per hour ~ 600MB per minute ~ 10MB per second ~ 82Mbit/sec There's some rough approximation there but it seems like you're not far from saturating that 100Mb link for the full 11 hours. Your bacula reports should include a transfer speed. What speed is reported (it's usually in Mbyte/sec)? Do you have a record of how long Amanda took? Just have, exactly the same, with the significant difference that Amanda was performing compression on the client. I'm amazed that this is something I'd overlooked (and possible overestimated the performance of our network.) Anyone have any experience with using compression on the client with Bacula? Gavin McCullagh-2 wrote: Interestingly, I just noticed that the Bacula dir was able to reel off a backup of the fd on localhost of about 750Mb in under 10 seconds, That's about 8MB per second which is a little slower than what you see above. The fd might not be able to write the data as quickly. Although I'm not sure I agree with this! More like 80Mb per second. More like what I'd expect. Anyway, very well made point, perhaps I'll push for a new Gig switch between servers! Many thanks. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Bacula-slow%2C-possibly-network-tp28521328p28523164.html Sent from the Bacula - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
No,
As you can see in my last mail, you need to run scripts before bacula
backup. In Windows 2003 too.
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Michael Da Cova mdac...@equiinet.comwrote:
Hi all
Sorry for the top post, and thanks for replying so far but I just need a
simple question answered if you don’t mind
Does Bacula with VSS support on backup windows 2008 system state
Michael
--
*From:* Koldo Santisteban [mailto:ksantiste...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* 11 May 2010 11:50 AM
*To:* James Harper
*Cc:* mdac...@equiinet.com; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
*Subject:* Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
Hello
I use this little script on weekly basis before bacula backup
wbadmin delete systemstatebackup -backupTarget:e: -keepVersions:0 -quiet
wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backupTarget:e: -quiet
Wbadmin saves several system states, and in my case with the last one is
engouh (Bacula store several copies)
Regarding the error/warning on junction points. Bacula tries to backup
folders that not fisically exists.
In the Job log i can see error/warnings like this (with VSS enabled):
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/AppData/Local/Temporary Internet Files: ERR=Access is
denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Application Data: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Cookies: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Documents/My Music: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Documents/My Pictures: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Documents/My Videos: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Local Settings: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/My Documents: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/NetHood: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Cannot open c:/Documents and
Settings/username/NTUSER.DAT: ERR=A required privilege is not held by the
client.
.
servername JobId 643: Cannot open c:/Documents and
Settings/username/ntuser.dat.LOG1: ERR=A required privilege is not held by
the client.
.
servername JobId 643: Cannot open c:/Documents and
Settings/username/NTUSER.DAT{7d5ec63a-c5bc-11dc-a02b-0019bbe6a65a}.TM.blf:
ERR=A required privilege is not held by the client.
.
servername JobId 643: Cannot open c:/Documents and
Settings/username/NTUSER.DAT{7d5ec63a-c5bc-11dc-a02b-0019bbe6a65a}.TMContainer0001.regtrans-ms:
ERR=A required privilege is not held by the client.
.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/PrintHood: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Recent: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/SendTo: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Start Menu: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Templates: ERR=Access is denied.
I have checked that c:\users is saved correctly (is the correct folder
name),then i think that is a bug in bacula (is noisy, because job finish
status is no ok).
I have no time to make a full restore and i don´t know if with a Bacula
backup and windows System State is possible on windows 2008. I am very
grateful if someone that test it post his conclusions.
Regards
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:15 PM, James Harper
james.har...@bendigoit.com.au wrote:
Regarding the junction points, i have hundred of warnings each time i
make a
backup with bacula, i don´t know how to avoid this and ,like Michael, i
am
very interesting in how to solve it...
What are the warnings? Is it the one about 'different filesystem'?
James
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Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:15:28 +0200, Foo said: On Mon, 10 May 2010 19:51:33 +0200, Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.com wrote: There is no such thing as system state backup any more in Windows 2008. It's always the whole C: drive. I'm not sure how well bacula handles it in the end. There also is the issue that Windows 2008 relies heavily on junction points, which bacula doesn't handle well. My experience so far mirrors yours but others are apparently disagreeing. I'm getting confused :) wbadmin GUI has options for selecting 'system state' and unselecting drive letters, except it didn't work for me (canceled after it had started including 6+ files). This seems to agree with you on including everything, but I don't understand the point of system state then, or of being able to unselect C:. I'm using Windows backup to an iSCSI drive, and then use bacula to back up a snapshot of that iSCSI volume. Is the result of that a monolothic blob like W2K3's ntbackup .bkf or single files? If it's a monolithic blob, Bacula can't do incrementals anymore. If it's single files, you would have to keep them around for incrementals and basically waste twice as much space everywhere, not to mention whatever problems junctions points becoming files presents. Whatever it may be, it just seems pointless. You might want to consider having two backups, for different purposes. Use a Windows full backup for disaster recovery and Full+Incremental Bacula backups for per-file recovery. __Martin -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 01:58:07PM +0200, Koldo Santisteban wrote:
No,
As you can see in my last mail, you need to run scripts before bacula
backup. In Windows 2003 too.
So what is the flag that James Harper was talking about?
With full VSS support, VSS defines the files that make up the system
state backup - it's a flag on the writer.
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Michael Da Cova mdac...@equiinet.comwrote:
Hi all
Sorry for the top post, and thanks for replying so far but I just need a
simple question answered if you don’t mind
Does Bacula with VSS support on backup windows 2008 system state
Michael
--
*From:* Koldo Santisteban [mailto:ksantiste...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* 11 May 2010 11:50 AM
*To:* James Harper
*Cc:* mdac...@equiinet.com; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
*Subject:* Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
Hello
I use this little script on weekly basis before bacula backup
wbadmin delete systemstatebackup -backupTarget:e: -keepVersions:0 -quiet
wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backupTarget:e: -quiet
Wbadmin saves several system states, and in my case with the last one is
engouh (Bacula store several copies)
Regarding the error/warning on junction points. Bacula tries to backup
folders that not fisically exists.
In the Job log i can see error/warnings like this (with VSS enabled):
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/AppData/Local/Temporary Internet Files: ERR=Access is
denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Application Data: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Cookies: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Documents/My Music: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Documents/My Pictures: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Documents/My Videos: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Local Settings: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/My Documents: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/NetHood: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Cannot open c:/Documents and
Settings/username/NTUSER.DAT: ERR=A required privilege is not held by the
client.
.
servername JobId 643: Cannot open c:/Documents and
Settings/username/ntuser.dat.LOG1: ERR=A required privilege is not held by
the client.
.
servername JobId 643: Cannot open c:/Documents and
Settings/username/NTUSER.DAT{7d5ec63a-c5bc-11dc-a02b-0019bbe6a65a}.TM.blf:
ERR=A required privilege is not held by the client.
.
servername JobId 643: Cannot open c:/Documents and
Settings/username/NTUSER.DAT{7d5ec63a-c5bc-11dc-a02b-0019bbe6a65a}.TMContainer0001.regtrans-ms:
ERR=A required privilege is not held by the client.
.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/PrintHood: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Recent: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/SendTo: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Start Menu: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Templates: ERR=Access is denied.
I have checked that c:\users is saved correctly (is the correct folder
name),then i think that is a bug in bacula (is noisy, because job finish
status is no ok).
I have no time to make a full restore and i don´t know if with a Bacula
backup and windows System State is possible on windows 2008. I am very
grateful if someone that test it post his conclusions.
Regards
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:15 PM, James Harper
james.har...@bendigoit.com.au wrote:
Regarding the junction points, i have hundred of warnings each time i
make a
backup with bacula, i don´t know how to avoid this and ,like Michael, i
am
very interesting in how to solve it...
What are the warnings? Is it the one about 'different filesystem'?
James
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Re: [Bacula-users] [Bulk] Re: Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
On Tue, 11 May 2010 10:11:17 +0200, Henrik Johansen hen...@scannet.dk wrote: If you are storing your system state backup on C you'll need to apply the reg fix as pointed out in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944530 first. Thanks for the fix, but even with that: wbadmin START BACKUP -backupTarget:D: -systemState -exclude:C:,D: -include:d:\temp.txt .. The backup storage location is invalid. You cannot use a volume that is included in the backup as a storage location. (I was trying to work around not being able to exclude the C: and D: volumes, temp.txt is a dummy file) If I just use: wbadmin START SYSTEMSTATEBACKUP -backupTarget:D: .. This will back up the system state from volume(s) System Reserved (100.00 MB),Local Disk(C:),Local Disk(D:) to D:. And this results in 6+ GB of data in 2 small and 1 large .vhd file. Astonishingly, the logfile does not actually contain any registry hive that I can see (e.g. ntuser.dat files). Apparently the default systembackup job includes *all* local volumes and *excludes* what it's supposed to backup. #...@$# Microsoft... Does anyone know how to fix this mess? Can you simply forget about wbadmin and have Bacula-fd back up live registry hives (because it should be VSS aware right?) - and restore them when needed? -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula slow, possibly network
On Tue, 11 May 2010, martinofmoscow wrote: Anyone have any experience with using compression on the client with Bacula? Yeah, we use it almost everywhere. The only exception is a video store where the files aren't terribly compressible. As you might imagine, it uses considerable CPU cycles on the client but it also reduces the bandwidth required. Assuming the CPU can keep up, it may well relieve the network bottleneck. Gavin McCullagh-2 wrote: Interestingly, I just noticed that the Bacula dir was able to reel off a backup of the fd on localhost of about 750Mb in under 10 seconds, That's about 8MB per second which is a little slower than what you see above. The fd might not be able to write the data as quickly. Although I'm not sure I agree with this! More like 80Mb per second. More like what I'd expect. Ah, sorry yes. I was confusing myself between Mb (usually Megabit) and MB (usually Megabyte). I see what you mean now, the above is 75MB/sec to the localhost. Gavin -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
Huuum
I want to hear about this option too. On bacula manual i can´t find any info
regarding it...
I think that James refer to
Enable VSS = yes
But this option allows a hot copy on windows...
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Graham Keeling gra...@equiinet.com wrote:
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 01:58:07PM +0200, Koldo Santisteban wrote:
No,
As you can see in my last mail, you need to run scripts before bacula
backup. In Windows 2003 too.
So what is the flag that James Harper was talking about?
With full VSS support, VSS defines the files that make up the system
state backup - it's a flag on the writer.
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Michael Da Cova mdac...@equiinet.com
wrote:
Hi all
Sorry for the top post, and thanks for replying so far but I just need
a
simple question answered if you don’t mind
Does Bacula with VSS support on backup windows 2008 system state
Michael
--
*From:* Koldo Santisteban [mailto:ksantiste...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* 11 May 2010 11:50 AM
*To:* James Harper
*Cc:* mdac...@equiinet.com; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
*Subject:* Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
Hello
I use this little script on weekly basis before bacula backup
wbadmin delete systemstatebackup -backupTarget:e: -keepVersions:0
-quiet
wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backupTarget:e: -quiet
Wbadmin saves several system states, and in my case with the last one
is
engouh (Bacula store several copies)
Regarding the error/warning on junction points. Bacula tries to backup
folders that not fisically exists.
In the Job log i can see error/warnings like this (with VSS enabled):
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/AppData/Local/Temporary Internet Files: ERR=Access
is
denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Application Data: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Cookies: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Documents/My Music: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Documents/My Pictures: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Documents/My Videos: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Local Settings: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/My Documents: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/NetHood: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Cannot open c:/Documents and
Settings/username/NTUSER.DAT: ERR=A required privilege is not held by
the
client.
.
servername JobId 643: Cannot open c:/Documents and
Settings/username/ntuser.dat.LOG1: ERR=A required privilege is not
held by
the client.
.
servername JobId 643: Cannot open c:/Documents and
Settings/username/NTUSER.DAT{7d5ec63a-c5bc-11dc-a02b-0019bbe6a65a}.TM.blf:
ERR=A required privilege is not held by the client.
.
servername JobId 643: Cannot open c:/Documents and
Settings/username/NTUSER.DAT{7d5ec63a-c5bc-11dc-a02b-0019bbe6a65a}.TMContainer0001.regtrans-ms:
ERR=A required privilege is not held by the client.
.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/PrintHood: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Recent: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/SendTo: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Start Menu: ERR=Access is denied.
servername JobId 643: Could not open directory c:/Documents and
Settings/username/Templates: ERR=Access is denied.
I have checked that c:\users is saved correctly (is the correct folder
name),then i think that is a bug in bacula (is noisy, because job
finish
status is no ok).
I have no time to make a full restore and i don´t know if with a Bacula
backup and windows System State is possible on windows 2008. I am very
grateful if someone that test it post his conclusions.
Regards
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:15 PM, James Harper
james.har...@bendigoit.com.au wrote:
Regarding the junction points, i have hundred of warnings each time i
make a
backup with
Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 01:58:07PM +0200, Koldo Santisteban wrote: No, As you can see in my last mail, you need to run scripts before bacula backup. In Windows 2003 too. So what is the flag that James Harper was talking about? With full VSS support, VSS defines the files that make up the system state backup - it's a flag on the writer. That was in regard to VSS, not bacula. Someone stated that the VSS API could not be used to perform a system state backup. Each VSS writer has a flag on it that says whether it forms part of the system state. James -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bulk] Re: Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
On 05/11/10 08:19, Foo wrote: If I just use: wbadmin START SYSTEMSTATEBACKUP -backupTarget:D: .. This will back up the system state from volume(s) System Reserved (100.00 MB),Local Disk(C:),Local Disk(D:) to D:. And this results in 6+ GB of data in 2 small and 1 large .vhd file. Astonishingly, the logfile does not actually contain any registry hive that I can see (e.g. ntuser.dat files). Apparently the default systembackup job includes *all* local volumes and *excludes* what it's supposed to backup. #...@$# Microsoft... Hey, if this stuff made any logical sense, Microsoft wouldn't be able to sell MSCE training. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
On Tue, 11 May 2010 14:30:09 +0200, Martin Simmons mar...@lispworks.com wrote: You might want to consider having two backups, for different purposes. Use a Windows full backup for disaster recovery and Full+Incremental Bacula backups for per-file recovery. We already have ADS for disaster recovery for W2K3, if it also supports W2K8 it would be a better idea. Or just plain dd as far as I'm concerned :) The point is to integrate this into the regular Bacula framework and schedules, so I either need something like ntbackup which extends Bacula in just the right way or something that can completely replace it. If it's just not possible for W2K8 maybe a different backup product is a better solution. -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
Yes, that´s true. But it makes very complicate to maintain backups with Windows 2008 and Bacula. Wih windows 2003 a system state backup and a bacula backup a full restore was possible. Foo, could you explain wich product is ADS?? is open source? On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Martin Simmons mar...@lispworks.comwrote: On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:15:28 +0200, Foo said: On Mon, 10 May 2010 19:51:33 +0200, Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.com wrote: There is no such thing as system state backup any more in Windows 2008. It's always the whole C: drive. I'm not sure how well bacula handles it in the end. There also is the issue that Windows 2008 relies heavily on junction points, which bacula doesn't handle well. My experience so far mirrors yours but others are apparently disagreeing. I'm getting confused :) wbadmin GUI has options for selecting 'system state' and unselecting drive letters, except it didn't work for me (canceled after it had started including 6+ files). This seems to agree with you on including everything, but I don't understand the point of system state then, or of being able to unselect C:. I'm using Windows backup to an iSCSI drive, and then use bacula to back up a snapshot of that iSCSI volume. Is the result of that a monolothic blob like W2K3's ntbackup .bkf or single files? If it's a monolithic blob, Bacula can't do incrementals anymore. If it's single files, you would have to keep them around for incrementals and basically waste twice as much space everywhere, not to mention whatever problems junctions points becoming files presents. Whatever it may be, it just seems pointless. You might want to consider having two backups, for different purposes. Use a Windows full backup for disaster recovery and Full+Incremental Bacula backups for per-file recovery. __Martin -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] volume/file size and speed
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Joseph Spenner joseph85...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm currently set up with a File based backup system (no tapes). Initially I wanted to make 1TB files, but learned (and read) that recovery of a backup is very slow with large files. So, I reconfigured it to create 1GB files. Also recycling will not work as well with only a few volumes since it would have to recycle the entire volume. I would use larger volumes than 1GB though. 5 to 10GB is what I generally use. Sorry do not know the answer to the first two. 3) If I use bconsole I can specify a single file to recover and it is VERY fast. But there doesn't seem to be a way to specify an entire directory. Or am I not looking in the right place? You run restore and mark the folder you want to restore. John -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] 5.0.2 on Debian Lenny: DIR, FD, SD all on the same host, TCP keepalive enabled, nevertheless Connection reset by peer error
Hi, I'm running Bacula 5.0.2 in conjunction with PostgreSQL 8.4.3 (both compiled from the official sources) on a Debian Lenny system. The system runs the director, storage daemon and file daemon. The actual storage media are barcode labeled LTO3 tapes contained in a HP Storage Works 1/8 G2 autoloader equipped with an HP Ultrium 920 drive. I've already followed the instructions in http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/TCP-Keepalive-HOWTO/ and the corresponding FAQ entry http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=faq#my_backup_starts_but_dies_after_a_while_with_connection_reset_by_peer_error since I came accross this thread, which had been started before I subscribed to the Bacula users mailing list: http://adsm.org/lists/html/Bacula-users/2010-04/msg00172.html I decided to compile the libkeeplive from Source Forge and use the LD_PRELOAD mechanism in order to make sure libkeeplive.so is always loaded. Furthermore I changed the sysctl and Heartbeat Interval settings as described in the referenced FAQ entry. Disabling accurate backups is not a solution for me since I want deleted files to be taken into account and I have to run quite a few long running shell scripts for gathering data via SCP from other hosts before the actual backup (writing to tape via SD) starts. So, a workaround for the TCP keepalive problem is absolutely necessary for me. A status inquiry on the client from within bconsole works without a problem, but even with TCP keepalive enabled my backup stops after a very short period of time, as the log from the Bacula director shows: === 1-Mai 16:33 nathan-sd JobId 13: Job write elapsed time = 00:00:36, Transfer rate = 20.30 M Bytes/second 11-Mai 16:34 nathan-fd JobId 13: Fatal error: backup.c:1019 Network send error to SD. ERR=Connection reset by peer 11-Mai 16:34 nathan-dir JobId 13: Error: Bacula nathan-dir 5.0.2 (28Apr10): 11-Mai-2010 16:34:27 Build OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu debian 5.0.4 JobId: 13 Job:nathan_backup.2010-05-11_16.32.43_03 Backup Level: Full (upgraded from Incremental) Client: nathan 5.0.2 (28Apr10) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu,debian,5.0.4 FileSet:nathan fileset 2010-05-10 23:05:00 Pool: WeeklyBackups (From Job FullPool override) Catalog:MyCatalog (From Client resource) Storage:nathan-sd (From Pool resource) Scheduled time: 11-Mai-2010 16:32:41 Start time: 11-Mai-2010 16:32:45 End time: 11-Mai-2010 16:34:27 Elapsed time: 1 min 42 secs Priority: 10 FD Files Written: 4,072 SD Files Written: 4,059 FD Bytes Written: 734,948,632 (734.9 MB) SD Bytes Written: 731,138,860 (731.1 MB) Rate: 7205.4 KB/s Software Compression: None VSS:no Encryption: no Accurate: yes Volume name(s): Volume Session Id: 1 Volume Session Time:1273588341 Last Volume Bytes: 2,194,827,264 (2.194 GB) Non-fatal FD errors:0 SD Errors: 0 FD termination status: Error SD termination status: Error Termination:*** Backup Error *** === Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance kind regards, Holger signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 7 Client Backup
FWIW, I'm just getting back to this...and that command doesn't work on Windows 7. Systemstatebackup is only available on Windows Server 2008. Thanks though, --Brian From: Koldo Santisteban [mailto:ksantiste...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 2:34 AM To: Phil Stracchino Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 7 Client Backup Ntbackup does not exist on Windows Vista/2008 and 7... Try using this command Wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backuptarget: PATH ntbackup is changed with wbadmin, information regarding this command on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770340%28WS.10%29.aspx I hope this can help you Regards!! On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.netmailto:ala...@metrocast.net wrote: On 03/08/10 16:55, Thomas Mueller wrote: Am Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:06:24 -0500 schrieb Phil Stracchino: On 03/08/10 09:26, McCann, Brian wrote: Hi All. I'm having a hard time finding a solution to this...but I'm sure there is one. When all my desktops were on Windows XP, I used the Client Run Before Job command to run ntbackup to make a system state backup to grab the registry and all those other goodies. For the life of me, I can't find the equivalent tool on Windows 7. Has anyone figured this out yet? It's my understanding that this is no longer necessary if using VSS. Can anyone confirm? IMHO the system state backup is still needed for a complete recovery.VSS itself is just a snapshot method to get a consistent state of files. Surely by now there has to be some better way to JUST dump and restore the registry. This problem has existed ever since ... was it Windows 3.x or Windows 95? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.netmailto:ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.netmailto:ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.orgmailto:p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] volume/file size and speed
--- On Tue, 5/11/10, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: 3) If I use bconsole I can specify a single file to recover and it is VERY fast. But there doesn't seem to be a way to specify an entire directory. Or am I not looking in the right place? You run restore and mark the folder you want to restore. John Right, but in order to do this, I first must let bat (I think?) load the WHOLE index before I get a list of what is possible to select. This is what appears to take hours. Or is this possible faster in bconsole? -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Verify Job Error
On Mon, 10 May 2010 13:05:49 -0400, ikkysleepy said: I am having some problem with the verify Job. The job always fails when scheduled but if I run the job manually then it works fine. ... For some reason the Verify Level is being set to Incremental. Do I need to specify Verify Level = Volume To Catalog ? Is this a bug in 5.0.1? Do you have Incremental in the schedule definition? You probably need a separate schedule for the verify jobs with no Level specified. __Martin -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] volume/file size and speed
Right, but in order to do this, I first must let bat (I think?) load the WHOLE index before I get a list of what is possible to select. This is what appears to take hours. Or is this possible faster in bconsole? I do not really use bat, nor have I restored anything from any version of bacula 2.4, however in 2.4 the indexing takes few minutes for a few hundred thousand files on my 5 year old database server with a 28 GB postgres catalog. John -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] volume/file size and speed
--- On Tue, 5/11/10, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: I first must let bat (I think?) load the WHOLE index before I get a list of what is possible to select. This is what appears to take hours. Or is this possible faster in bconsole? I do not really use bat, nor have I restored anything from any version of bacula 2.4, however in 2.4 the indexing takes few minutes for a few hundred thousand files on my 5 year old database server with a 28 GB postgres catalog. John Ok, I just used bconsole and recovered a directory in little time at all. So, bat is the problem. I can use bconsole instead. I might try to go back to using 1TB files and see how it performs as well. Thanks for the tip! -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] 5.0.2 on Debian Lenny: DIR, FD, SD all on the same host, TCP keepalive enabled, nevertheless Connection reset by peer error
2010/5/11 Holger Rauch holger.ra...@empic.de Hi, I'm running Bacula 5.0.2 in conjunction with PostgreSQL 8.4.3 (both compiled from the official sources) on a Debian Lenny system. The system runs the director, storage daemon and file daemon. The actual storage media are barcode labeled LTO3 tapes contained in a HP Storage Works 1/8 G2 autoloader equipped with an HP Ultrium 920 drive. I've already followed the instructions in http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/TCP-Keepalive-HOWTO/ and the corresponding FAQ entry http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=faq#my_backup_starts_but_dies_after_a_while_with_connection_reset_by_peer_error since I came accross this thread, which had been started before I subscribed to the Bacula users mailing list: http://adsm.org/lists/html/Bacula-users/2010-04/msg00172.html I decided to compile the libkeeplive from Source Forge and use the LD_PRELOAD mechanism in order to make sure libkeeplive.so is always loaded. Furthermore I changed the sysctl and Heartbeat Interval settings as described in the referenced FAQ entry. Disabling accurate backups is not a solution for me since I want deleted files to be taken into account and I have to run quite a few long running shell scripts for gathering data via SCP from other hosts before the actual backup (writing to tape via SD) starts. So, a workaround for the TCP keepalive problem is absolutely necessary for me. A status inquiry on the client from within bconsole works without a problem, but even with TCP keepalive enabled my backup stops after a very short period of time, as the log from the Bacula director shows: === 1-Mai 16:33 nathan-sd JobId 13: Job write elapsed time = 00:00:36, Transfer rate = 20.30 M Bytes/second 11-Mai 16:34 nathan-fd JobId 13: Fatal error: backup.c:1019 Network send error to SD. ERR=Connection reset by peer 11-Mai 16:34 nathan-dir JobId 13: Error: Bacula nathan-dir 5.0.2 (28Apr10): 11-Mai-2010 16:34:27 Build OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu debian 5.0.4 JobId: 13 Job: nathan_backup.2010-05-11_16.32.43_03 Backup Level: Full (upgraded from Incremental) Client: nathan 5.0.2 (28Apr10) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu,debian,5.0.4 FileSet: nathan fileset 2010-05-10 23:05:00 Pool: WeeklyBackups (From Job FullPool override) Catalog: MyCatalog (From Client resource) Storage: nathan-sd (From Pool resource) Scheduled time: 11-Mai-2010 16:32:41 Start time: 11-Mai-2010 16:32:45 End time: 11-Mai-2010 16:34:27 Elapsed time: 1 min 42 secs Priority: 10 FD Files Written: 4,072 SD Files Written: 4,059 FD Bytes Written: 734,948,632 (734.9 MB) SD Bytes Written: 731,138,860 (731.1 MB) Rate: 7205.4 KB/s Software Compression: None VSS: no Encryption: no Accurate: yes Volume name(s): Volume Session Id: 1 Volume Session Time: 1273588341 Last Volume Bytes: 2,194,827,264 (2.194 GB) Non-fatal FD errors: 0 SD Errors: 0 FD termination status: Error SD termination status: Error Termination: *** Backup Error *** === Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance kind regards, Holger If your machine does have a firewall, remember to allow traffic on the loopback interface. -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] volume/file size and speed
Joseph Spenner wrote: Ok, I just used bconsole and recovered a directory in little time at all. So, bat is the problem. I can use bconsole instead. I might try to go back to using 1TB files and see how it performs as well. Thanks for the tip! I can confirm this and will post more fully in a new thread. Regards, Richard -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Building BAT bombs
If downloaded means that you installed the rpm, then that is surprising. Does /usr/include/QtGui/QAction exist now? Which version of Qt is this? __Martin -- I downloaded/installed qt-devel-3.3.3-16.el4.x86_64. I did not see the include directory. By the way, I am building BAT fro the source RPM if that makes a difference. === Jon -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Questions about using bacula with a d2d device
We have an HP d2d4112 system that presents a virtual tape changer to our host that is running Bacula. The virtual tapes from the d2d can be copied onto physical ones via an attached LTO-1840 tape drive. My questions in this case would be: 1. Suppose I have to pull an older physical tape from storage and do a restore from it. Assume that bacula has already recycled the virtual tape that this physical tape was copied from. If I copy the physical tape back onto a different virtual slot, will Bacula be able to read the label and do a restore from it? 2. Is there a way to have Bacula always start full backups on a new volume, instead of appending? I want the incremental jobs to append to this volume after the full backup job is done. Basically I'm trying to avoid splitting a full backup across two tapes, while keeping the incremental backup files together with the full backup. thanks Sean -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Database version problems caused Ubuntu 10.04 upgrade to abort
Hi. I ran the Ubuntu 10.04 upgrade the other day (from 9.10) and it fell over at the bacula update stage. It was complaining about the database. I can see now that I have the 5.0.1 binaries laid down. Prior to the upgrade attempt I was running 2.4.4. The error messages in /var/log/bacula/log are: 08-May 13:24 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: Version error for database bacula. Wanted 12, got 10 08-May 13:24 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: Could not open Catalogue MyCatalog, database bacula 08-May 13:24 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: Version error for database bacula. Wanted 12, got 10 08-May 13:24 bacula-dir ERROR TERMINATION Please correct configuration file: /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf 08-May 13:27 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: Version error for database bacula. Wanted 12, got 10 08-May 13:27 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: Could not open Catalogue MyCatalog, database bacula 08-May 13:27 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: Version error for database bacula. Wanted 12, got 10 08-May 13:27 bacula-dir ERROR TERMINATION Please correct configuration file: /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf So I'm guessing the DB upgrade hasn't worked. I've downloaded the 3.0.3 and 5.0.1 gzip files and extracted the updatedb directories. I can see lots of scripts to update the DB. My questions are 1. Do I need to update the DB from v10 to v11 before updating to v12? 2. I can see in the 5.0.1 download there's a update_mysql_tables_10_to_11.in that's not executable. Is there a special procedure to run this set of commands? 3. There's no v11 to v12 script, but the README says to run the update_bacula_tables script. However that's not on my system. How do I get/run this script to get my DB to v12? Thanks.-- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Feature idea feeler - bconsole include / grep
On 5/10/2010 7:39 PM, mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu wrote: In the message dated: Mon, 10 May 2010 13:26:51 +1000, The pithy ruminations from Norberto Meijome on Re: [Bacula-users] Feature idea feeler - bconsole include / grep were: = = (and to the list.. Apologies Gavin for private reply...) = = On 7 May 2010 19:19, Gavin McCullaghgavin.mccull...@gcd.ie wrote: = =On Thu, 06 May 2010, Steve Polyack wrote: = [SNIP!] = bconsole session. However, perhaps a solution would be to have bconsol= = e = parse the pipe character and feed output into the command that follows = which could be any arbitrary *nix command (as opposed to = writing/including our own version of grep). = I think that's a great suggestion, and the cleanest way to do this. I'd add one thing, which is to have bconsole detect in a command as well. The logic would be (in bad pseudo-code): While this is definitely a neat feature, my biggest concern is that this would be a gigantic privilege escalation hole. By allowing bconsole to execute any arbitrary command, it becomes impossible for the general system administrator to restrict the backup operator to bconsole access only via sudo. At a minimum, I'd hope to either see this feature implemented in such a way as to drop privs to the original user after reading any config files, and also require a config option to explicitly enable it. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Database version problems caused Ubuntu 10.04 upgrade to abort
On 05/11/10 18:15, David Edwards wrote: So I'm guessing the DB upgrade hasn't worked. I've downloaded the 3.0.3 and 5.0.1 gzip files and extracted the updatedb directories. I can see lots of scripts to update the DB. My questions are 1. Do I need to update the DB from v10 to v11 before updating to v12? Yes. 2. I can see in the 5.0.1 download there's a update_mysql_tables_10_to_11.in that's not executable. Is there a special procedure to run this set of commands? That's an unconfigured script source file. It's not usable as-is. 3. There's no v11 to v12 script, but the README says to run the update_bacula_tables script. However that's not on my system. How do I get/run this script to get my DB to v12? Well, it sounds like the Bacula package in Ubuntu 10.04 isn't built correctly. What you could do is configure the source appropriately, then do a make in just the subdirectory containing the scripts to make the update scripts you need. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Restores via bat version browser very slow.
I installed 3.0.3 a month or so prior to 5.0.0 being released, with a view to using bat for restores, as it made life much easier for commandline-phobes, and it performed very well. It was then updated to 5.0.1 and restores of anything more than a handfull of files became unusably slow. I noted all the discussion from others seeing similar effects which largely seemed to be caused by extra mysql indexes having been added - something I had not done. Incorrect mysql tuning was also blamed. I then saw a comment by someone who said that it was slow in bat but OK using bconsole and I have just completed the following tests: The director is on the same machine as the mysql database - a default, untuned Fedora 11 mysql 5.1.37. Using bat from a Gb connected machine to restore a tree containing 72,684 files, the progress bar on the GUI takes two minutes to complete Stage 1 -Processing Checked Directories. Stage 2 - Filling Database Table takes about 80 minutes. During this mysql resource usage on the database machine is less than 1% CPU and RAM and bat resource usage is moderate. Switching to bconsole on the Gb connected machine and restoring the same job, it takes about 1 second at the Building directory tree stage and 0.5 second at the 72,684 files marked stage. While I did not spend a lot of time on 3.0.3, I am quitre sure this problem was not apparent then. Regards, Richard -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
-Original Message- I'm using Windows backup to an iSCSI drive, and then use bacula to back up a snapshot of that iSCSI volume. Is the result of that a monolothic blob like W2K3's ntbackup .bkf or single files? If it's a monolithic blob, Bacula can't do incrementals anymore. If it's single files, you would have to keep them around for incrementals and basically waste twice as much space everywhere, not to mention whatever problems junctions points becoming files presents. Whatever it may be, it just seems pointless. The result consists of a few files and directories. The actual backup is done into a .VHD file (i.e., the same file Microsoft uses for virtual machines). It is indeed a monolithic blob. Based on that, I'm assuming that the various backups are simply snapshots of this virtual hard disk. You are right about the no incrementals. -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup
-Original Message- From: Henrik Johansen [mailto:hen...@scannet.dk] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 1:11 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup On 05/11/10 10:04 AM, Graham Keeling wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:51:52AM +1000, James Harper wrote: With full VSS support, VSS defines the files that make up the system state backup - it's a flag on the writer. Bacula handles junction points perfectly. So, to get a backup with Windows 2008 that includes the system state, you need to set a flag on the writer. Do you know how to set that flag? wbadmin can do system state backups - you do not need to set any VSS flags for that : wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backuptarget:C: -quiet If you are storing your system state backup on C you'll need to apply the reg fix as pointed out in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944530 first. Simply put, Windows programs can register as 'VSS writers' and then get informed whenever a VSS snapshot is requested and act on that. The system state in Windows 2008 is really the whole C: drive plus a little extra information (I assume, boot sectors or the like). So when you do this system state backup, you are basically backing up drive C: to itself. That is why it is disabled by default. Secondly, backing up to a drive letter or a network share is really not a good idea. EVERY backup will be a full backup. When you let Windows use a dedicated backup hard disk, Windows Backup will only back up changes after the first full backup. IOW, every backup except the first is incremental. That is why the schedule backup does not support backing up to directories. -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 7 Client Backup
Yes, only on Vista/2008... On Windows 7 i think that the unique solution is to use Backup and Restore option on control panel, and schedule a backup of system image...and then save to bacula...That is not very useful. Perhaps the better way is create a system repair disc and only use bacula to save user files... Regards On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:42 PM, McCann, Brian bmcc...@andmore.com wrote: FWIW, I’m just getting back to this…and that command doesn’t work on Windows 7. “Systemstatebackup” is only available on Windows Server 2008. Thanks though, --Brian *From:* Koldo Santisteban [mailto:ksantiste...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, March 09, 2010 2:34 AM *To:* Phil Stracchino *Cc:* bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 7 Client Backup Ntbackup does not exist on Windows Vista/2008 and 7... Try using this command *Wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backuptarget: PATH* ntbackup is changed with wbadmin, information regarding this command on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770340%28WS.10%29.aspx I hope this can help you Regards!! On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote: On 03/08/10 16:55, Thomas Mueller wrote: Am Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:06:24 -0500 schrieb Phil Stracchino: On 03/08/10 09:26, McCann, Brian wrote: Hi All. I'm having a hard time finding a solution to this...but I'm sure there is one. When all my desktops were on Windows XP, I used the Client Run Before Job command to run ntbackup to make a system state backup to grab the registry and all those other goodies. For the life of me, I can't find the equivalent tool on Windows 7. Has anyone figured this out yet? It's my understanding that this is no longer necessary if using VSS. Can anyone confirm? IMHO the system state backup is still needed for a complete recovery.VSS itself is just a snapshot method to get a consistent state of files. Surely by now there has to be some better way to JUST dump and restore the registry. This problem has existed ever since ... was it Windows 3.x or Windows 95? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
