Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up Windiows 7 64-bit
Am 01.04.2013 18:07, schrieb Phil Stracchino: On 04/01/13 11:25, dweimer wrote: Runs fairly well, but VSS seems to fail causing the backup to fail every three to four days. Ah, so that really hasn't improved since I was using Bacula on Windows 2000 then. The same thing happed there; VSS would occasionally just Not Work. I wonder if that's a problem of the client versions of Windows. I am backing up a mix of Windows Server 2000 (don't ask ...), 2003 and 2008 servers and haven't had a VSS failure in months. (And to make it worse, neither VSS nor NTBackup would reliably, consistently read open registry hives, meaning if anyone was logged in when the backup ran, the registry would be incomplete.) Maybe that's the point. My servers aren't terminal servers, so they don't have users log in interactively, only the occasional administrator. -- Tilman Schmidt Phoenix Software GmbH Bonn, Germany signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up Windiows 7 64-bit
Hello, 2013/4/1 Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net So, after a mostly-unsuccessful[1] experiment with Acronis TrueImage, I've decided to revisit backing up the four Windows 7/64 machines on my network using Bacula. However, I understand there is significant complexity in correctly handling mount points in the Windows Vista/7 family. Is the key word 'Volume Mounted Points ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_volume_mount_point)? If so, do you want to use VSS with VMP? If so, you have to assign a drive letter to the VMP to successfully backup files with Bacula. FileSet-Include-File should point to the drive letter assigned not to the VMP itself. If this is not the case (no VSS nor VMP) then there is no need to do anything special for Windows Vista/7/8. I managed some number of Windows Vista/7 machines without a problem. I use a standard FileSet for this like File = C:/ or File = C:/Users, etc. I use VSS. best regards -- Radosław Korzeniewski rados...@korzeniewski.net -- Own the Future-Intel(R) Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/12124-176961-30367-2___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Backing up Windiows 7 64-bit
So, after a mostly-unsuccessful[1] experiment with Acronis TrueImage, I've decided to revisit backing up the four Windows 7/64 machines on my network using Bacula. However, I understand there is significant complexity in correctly handling mount points in the Windows Vista/7 family. Also, since the OS files on the four should be more similar than anything else on ,my network, I think they'd probably be a good test case for base jobs. So: Does anyone who has Bacula working on 64-bit Windows 7 (three Win7 Home, one Win7 Pro, if that makes a difference) have a working-example fileset and configuration for Windows 7 clients? Anything else I need to know about Windows 7 64-bit and Bacula? All tips appreciated. [1] Image backup mode worked well, but file-level was so slow as to be unusable (two hours into file-level backup of a machine with 320GB of mirrored SATA2 disk, on which an image backup completes in maybe 30 minutes, it was estimating five and a half days to complete). Two of the four test clients immediately configured to use the desired NAS backup share on the first try; the remaining two, I had to fight with for an hour on that point alone. -- 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, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. -- Own the Future-Intelreg; Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel_levelupd2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up Windiows 7 64-bit
On 04/01/2013 9:53 am, Phil Stracchino wrote:
So, after a mostly-unsuccessful[1] experiment with Acronis TrueImage,
I've decided to revisit backing up the four Windows 7/64 machines on
my
network using Bacula. However, I understand there is significant
complexity in correctly handling mount points in the Windows Vista/7
family. Also, since the OS files on the four should be more similar
than anything else on ,my network, I think they'd probably be a good
test case for base jobs.
So: Does anyone who has Bacula working on 64-bit Windows 7 (three
Win7
Home, one Win7 Pro, if that makes a difference) have a working-example
fileset and configuration for Windows 7 clients? Anything else I need
to know about Windows 7 64-bit and Bacula?
All tips appreciated.
[1] Image backup mode worked well, but file-level was so slow as to
be
unusable (two hours into file-level backup of a machine with 320GB of
mirrored SATA2 disk, on which an image backup completes in maybe 30
minutes, it was estimating five and a half days to complete). Two of
the four test clients immediately configured to use the desired NAS
backup share on the first try; the remaining two, I had to fight with
for an hour on that point alone.
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I am using this configuration with windows 8, didn't change it any when
I updated from windows 7. Both Pro x64, I haven't ran one on home
version.
Note below, I have two Disk drives setup, C: and J:, J: is a software
iSCSI drive in this setup, it does run a little slow, about 5MB/s but I
am using gzip, and drive J: contains VMware virtual machines, which
compress around 62% which accounts for the sluggishness. Make sure you
install the 64bit version of the software or VSS will not work, also the
installer will likely fail to properly generate the configuration files,
in my case the director configuration on the monitor part had blank
values, which caused the service to fail to start. Obviously below my
passwords have been removed, so make sure you put some real data in
those if you copy and modify my configuration.
Runs fairly well, but VSS seems to fail causing the backup to fail
every three to four days.
Server Client Configuration:
Client {
Name = workstation-fd
Password = ...
Address = workstation.dweimer.local
FDPort = 9102
Catalog = MyCatalog
AutoPrune = yes
File Retention = 20 days
Job Retention = 20 days
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 4
}
FileSet {
Name = Workstation
Enable VSS = Yes
Ignore FileSet Changes = Yes
Include {
File = C:/
File = J:/
Options {
signature = MD5
Compression = GZIP5
OneFS = yes
Accurate = yes
}
}
Exclude {
File = *$RECYCLE.BIN
File = *$Recycle.Bin
File = *:/Temp
File = *:/Windows/Temp
File = *:/hiberfil.sys
File = *:/pagefile.sys
File = *:/System Volume Information
File = *:/*.vmem
}
}
Job {
Name = Workstation
JobDefs = DefaultJob
Client = workstation-fd
FileSet = Workstation
Schedule = WeeklyCycle
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 4
}
PC File Daemon Configuration:
FileDaemon {
Name = workstation-fd
FDport = 9102
WorkingDirectory = C:\\Program Files\\Bacula\\working
Pid Directory = C:\\Program Files\\Bacula\\working
Plugin Directory = C:\\Program Files\\Bacula\\plugins
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10
}
Director {
Name = bacula-dir
Password = ...
}
Director {
Name = bacula-mon
Password = ...
Monitor = yes
}
Messages {
Name = Standard
director = bacula-dir = all, !skipped, !restored
}
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Thanks,
Dean E. Weimer
http://www.dweimer.net/
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Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up Windiows 7 64-bit
On 04/01/13 11:25, dweimer wrote: Runs fairly well, but VSS seems to fail causing the backup to fail every three to four days. Ah, so that really hasn't improved since I was using Bacula on Windows 2000 then. The same thing happed there; VSS would occasionally just Not Work. (And to make it worse, neither VSS nor NTBackup would reliably, consistently read open registry hives, meaning if anyone was logged in when the backup ran, the registry would be incomplete.) -- 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, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. -- Own the Future-Intelreg; Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel_levelupd2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
