Thanks Thomas!!

I can confirm the same responses to the * and the second slash that you received. The backup does appear to be OK. I too am curious about the impact to restores. I'll test a restore to an alternate directory over the weekend if I have a bit of time.

Dana


At 10:30 PM 7/20/2005, Thomas Simmons wrote:

Seems I spoke too soon. After seeing the output:

21-Jul 21:59 nemo-fd: Generate VSS snapshots. Driver="VSS WinXP", Drive(s)="C"
21-Jul 21:59 nemo-fd: VSS Writer: "MSDEWriter", State: 1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
21-Jul 21:59 nemo-fd: VSS Writer: "Microsoft Writer (Bootable State)", State: 1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
21-Jul 21:59 nemo-fd: VSS Writer: "WMI Writer", State: 1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
21-Jul 21:59 nemo-fd: VSS Writer: "Microsoft Writer (Service State)", State: 1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)

I walked away but the backup failed because it couldn't find c:/*. In any event, I found that specifying two trailing slashes after c: does work. I don't yet know if this will cause any issues when doing the restore, I'll be testing that tomorrow.

  FileSet {
     Name = "default-winxp"
     Enable VSS = yes
     Include {
       Options {
         signature = MD5
       }
       File = "c://"
     }
   }

Thanks,
Thomas

Kern, List,
I figured out what the issue is! When backing up an entire drive, an asterix must follow the trailing /. If the fileset is specified as follows VSS will not be used:
 FileSet {
    Name = "default-winxp"
    Enable VSS = yes
    Include {
      Options {
        signature = MD5
      }
      File = "c:/"
    }
 }
Adding a * to "c:/" solves the issue.
 FileSet {
    Name = "default-winxp"
    Enable VSS = yes
    Include {
      Options {
        signature = MD5
      }
      File = "c:/*"
    }
 }
Thanks,
Thomas
Kern Sibbald wrote:

On Thursday 21 July 2005 19:55, Nicolas Lopez wrote:

[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.



I don't know what is going on here, but I'm backing up a Windows XP Home machine that has the same logon:

Tibs Version: 1.37.30 (14 July 2005) VSS Windows XP MVS NT 5.1.2600

with bconsole, and here is the top part of my Job report:
19-Jul 01:23 MainSD: Spooling data ...
19-Jul 01:23 Tibs: Generate VSS snapshots. Driver="VSS WinXP", Drive(s)="C"
19-Jul 01:23 Tibs: VSS Writer: "WMI Writer", State: 1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
19-Jul 01:23 Tibs: VSS Writer: "MSDEWriter", State: 1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
19-Jul 01:23 Tibs: VSS Writer: "Microsoft Writer (Bootable State)", State: 1 (VSS_W 19-Jul 01:23 Tibs: VSS Writer: "Microsoft Writer (Service State)", State: 1 (VSS_WS 19-Jul 01:25 MainSD: Committing spooled data to Volume. Despooling 534,420 bytes .. 19-Jul 01:25 MainSD: Sending spooled attrs to the Director. Despooling 2,539 bytes
19-Jul 01:25 HeadMan: Bacula 1.37.30 (14Jul05): 19-Jul-2005 01:25:57 ...

As you can see, the VSS snapshot was clearly taken. I'll take a look at the code tomorrow. Perhaps I will see something.



 - Nick Lopez
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