[BackupPC-users] Error Backing up Servers

2012-09-04 Thread gshergill
Hi guys, Sorry for the late response, have been on holiday. Hi Bowie Bailey, === I've added the following now; $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = { 'C$$' = [ '*/Desktop/*' ] }; and still the same error; NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Documents and Settings\* This backup will fail

[BackupPC-users] Error Backing up Servers

2012-09-04 Thread gshergill
Hi guys, It's all working now for Windows Server 2003. The underlining issue was that the Excludes need to use \ instead of /. After that was changed I kept re-running the backup and adding excludes to the directories that failed and now it works (pretty long exclude list...). The error;

[BackupPC-users] Error Backing up Servers

2012-09-04 Thread gshergill
Hi again guys, Okay I see the issue, there is no such folder called Documents and Settings User Data is in the folder Users. Tried to create the folder, Windows doesn't let me. Tried adding the file to the Exclude, same error Any idea why it's even looking for Documents and Settings?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Error Backing up Servers

2012-09-04 Thread Mark Maciolek
hi, It is hidden link Microsoft included so when migrating from XP to Vista the files moved would end up in the Documents folder. Mark On 9/4/2012 8:38 AM, gshergill wrote: Hi again guys, Okay I see the issue, there is no such folder called Documents and Settings User

[BackupPC-users] Error Backing up Servers

2012-09-04 Thread gshergill
Hi Mark, = It is hidden link Microsoft included so when migrating from XP to Vista the files moved would end up in the Documents folder. Mark On 9/4/2012 8:38 AM, gshergill wrote: Hi again guys, Okay I see the issue, there is no such folder called Documents and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Error Backing up Servers

2012-09-04 Thread oragain
Hi, Good news if you got it working. As for Documents Settings, on a windows 7 or windows 2k8 you can remove them from the backup. They are links for backward compatibility. But you have to backup the folder Users in exchange. You can also simply ignore the access denied errors if you want to

[BackupPC-users] Error Backing up Servers

2012-09-04 Thread gshergill
Hi oragain, == You can also simply ignore the access denied errors if you want to only manage one config file for windows 7 / 2k8 / 2k3 / XP. Access Denied is not a stopping error. It is informative. Regards, Here is my exclude list for a windows 7 / 2k8 machine: ==

[BackupPC-users] Error Backing up Servers

2012-09-04 Thread gshergill
Hi oragain, == You can also simply ignore the access denied errors if you want to only manage one config file for windows 7 / 2k8 / 2k3 / XP. Access Denied is not a stopping error. It is informative. Regards, Here is my exclude list for a windows 7 / 2k8 machine: ==

[BackupPC-users] Error Backing up Servers

2012-09-04 Thread gshergill
Hi oragain, == You can also simply ignore the access denied errors if you want to only manage one config file for windows 7 / 2k8 / 2k3 / XP. Access Denied is not a stopping error. It is informative. Regards, Here is my exclude list for a windows 7 / 2k8 machine: ==

[BackupPC-users] Functionality to Back Up VSphere box?

2012-09-04 Thread gshergill
Hi BackupPC community, I was wondering if there is a functionality to allow someone to back up their box running VSphere (as an OS). Ideally, I would run one command and it would sequentially back up every VM on the VSphere box. Thank you for your time. Kind Regards, gshergill

Re: [BackupPC-users] Functionality to Back Up VSphere box?

2012-09-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:53 AM, gshergill backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hi BackupPC community, I was wondering if there is a functionality to allow someone to back up their box running VSphere (as an OS). Ideally, I would run one command and it would sequentially back up every VM

[BackupPC-users] Functionality to Back Up VSphere box?

2012-09-04 Thread gshergill
Hi Les Mikesell, No, not only does it not have any special facility to deal with the VM host (other than generic ssh commands), the large VM image files would always have changes that would prevent backuppc's pooling from working for them. On the other hand you could set

Re: [BackupPC-users] Functionality to Back Up VSphere box?

2012-09-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:43 AM, gshergill backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hi Les Mikesell, No, not only does it not have any special facility to deal with the VM host (other than generic ssh commands), the large VM image files would always have changes that

[BackupPC-users] Functionality to Back Up VSphere box?

2012-09-04 Thread gshergill
Hi Les Mikesell, Thanks for the response, I found VMWare Script can do the functionality I require. Thank you for your help. Kind Regards, gshergill +-- |This was sent by gasherg...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward

[BackupPC-users] Error Backing up Servers

2012-09-04 Thread gshergill
Hi guys, The file keeps failing (with access denied) on the following types of files; Windows 2008 Go to a folder and on the tab with File, Edit, View, Tools, Help do the following; Tools Folder Options View Hide protected operating system files (Recommended). Apply this, and all the

Re: [BackupPC-users] WinXX file ownership / permissions

2012-09-04 Thread Timothy J Massey
Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org wrote on 09/03/2012 07:33:39 PM: I'd recommend rsync+vshadow to get all the files, of course -- for a bare metal restore, if you don't recover the registry, you won't have anything to map to, anyway, so I'm assuming you're going to do that as well,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Functionality to Back Up VSphere box?

2012-09-04 Thread Doug Lytle
gshergill wrote: I was wondering if there is a functionality to allow someone to back up their box running VSphere I'm running ESXi5 Free and use the GhettoVCB scripts to back up my VMs. Maybe this will work for you as well: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8760 Doug -- Ben