On Wednesday 24 August 2005 09:31, meska wrote: > Hi all > > First - huge thanx for trying to integrate VSS with bacula. For more > than three weeks I've been runing a Linux test machine to backup Windows > XP clients. Totally i have 16 Windows XP PC. In the beginning only 2 > clients always failed to generate VSS snapshots with an error: > > Generate VSS snapshots failed. ERR=The operation completed successfully. > > They both have the identical configuration; both have the same > motherboard, ram, etc... and WindowsXP was installed a long time ago ( I > will try reinstalling it and see if it fixes the problem) > > After some time (7-8 days, I do ncremental backups Monday-Friday, and > full on saturday) more clients started to fail generate VSS snapshots. > So now I have total of 8 clients that fail to generate VSS snapshots all > with an error: > > Generate VSS snapshots failed. ERR=The operation completed successfully. > > I also noticed one strange thing - one day, when usual incremental > backup started (all start at 7 PM, and run one-by-one) all clients that > usually fail, this time failed with an error: > > Generate VSS snapshots failed. ERR=The system could not find the > environment option that was entered. > > Any usefull information I could provide? I'm using windows client > version 1.37.32 with VSS support, and linux version 1.37.30
Please try upgrading to 1.37.36 at least on one of your clients. It *should* fix a number of known problems, the same or similar to what you are seeing. -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users