I added the line “Enable VSS = Yes” to the fileset and this is the result,

 

23-Sep 09:51 gig-fd: Gig-NightlySave.2006-09-23_09.50.49 Warning: VSS was not initialized properly. VSS support is disabled. ERR=The operation completed successfully.

 

23-Sep 09:51 gig-fd: Gig-NightlySave.2006-09-23_09.50.49 Error: Read error on file C:/Documents and Settings/jim/Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Outlook/Outlook.pst. ERR=The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file.

 

How do I “properly initialize” VSS?

 

Thanks

 


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mantas Marciulaitis
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 3:07 AM
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] close Outlook on windows client

 

Are you using VSS? Volume Shadow Copy service is actually designed to make backups of locked files like outlook’s .pst, so it should work with Enable VSS=Yes option in the FileSet config.

 


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Peters
Sent: 22 September 2006 09:42
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Bacula-users] close Outlook on windows client

 

I searched through the archives and found instructions on how use a “run before job” script to shut down outlook so I can backup the pst file. I have a batch file in the bacula directory on my windows client that I call from the job with this;   

Client RunBeforeJob= "c:/bacula/before_back.bat"

 

This file has only one line right now;

Cscript "c:\bacula\close_outlook.vbs"

 

And here is the contents of close_outlook.vbs;

Dim oOL

Set oOL = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")

oOL.Quit

 

If I run the batch file from the windows client immediately outlook exits and all is fine, but if I run the job with bacula I see the command window open up on the windows client then a windows error message appears saying this;

Cannot Start Microsoft Office Outlook. A program Error has occurred please close outlook and windows then try again.

 

If I shut down outlook at this point I get a fatal error in the backup and it terminates the job. If I just wait for about a min. the windows error message goes away and the backup continues to work except that it cant back up the outlook pst file and this is what I see in the message on the console;

 

22-Sep 01:08 gig-fd: ClientRunBeforeJob:

22-Sep 01:08 gig-fd: ClientRunBeforeJob: C:\WINDOWS\system32>Cscript "c:\bacula\close_outlook.vbs"

22-Sep 01:08 gig-fd: ClientRunBeforeJob: Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6

22-Sep 01:08 gig-fd: ClientRunBeforeJob: Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.

22-Sep 01:08 gig-fd: ClientRunBeforeJob:

22-Sep 01:10 gig-fd: ClientRunBeforeJob: c:\bacula\close_outlook.vbs(2, 1) Microsoft _vbscript_ runtime error: ActiveX component can't create object: 'Outlook.Application'

 

Doesn’t make sense to my pea brain why I can run this file by clicking on it from windows and all is well yet when the Bacula-dir executes it I get this problem. It’s the same file executing either way????  

At any rate does anyone have a solution for this? I am running office 2003, windows xp and winbacula-1.38.9 on the client and bacula version 1.38.9 on the director

 

Thanks

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