The bacula dev documentation states: Bacula supports VSS on both Windows 2003 and Windows XP.
I can't believe this would be in there without prior testing on XP. Anyway, this can't be the case as ntbackup can make a perfect snapshot of the system, and it explicity says that it's using volume shadow copy. Thanks, Thomas > > From: Nicolas Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/07/21 Thu PM 01:55:03 EDT > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Config error: Keyword EnableVSS not permitted > in this re > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Kern, > >Thanks for your reply. I am using the VSS enabled FD. Here is the output > >from status client. > > > >lightning:~# echo "status client=nemo-fd" | bconsole > >Connecting to Director lightning:9101 > >1000 OK: lightning-dir Version: 1.37.30 (14 July 2005) > >Enter a period to cancel a command. > >status client=nemo-fd > >Using default Catalog name=MyCatalog DB=bacula > >Connecting to Client nemo-fd at nemo:9102 > > > >nemo-fd Version: 1.37.30 (14 July 2005) VSS Windows XP MVS NT 5.1.2600 > > > > > > > I think I see the problem, you're trying to backup an XP system. XP > is only a VSS client, it doesn't actually do Shadow Copies itself, > that's a Server 2003 thing. Microsoft bundled the VSS client with SP2 > so that you wouldn't have to install it separately. > I haven't upgraded my director to 1.37 yet to double check that it > does work against out 2003 server, but as soon as it hits Debian I will. > > - Nick Lopez > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies > from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, > informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to > speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
