Hi, On 02/17/10 04:04 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: > > On 2/16/2010 2:55 PM, Henrik Johansen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 02/16/10 06:36 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: >> >>> On 2/16/2010 11:34 AM, Paul Binkley wrote: >>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> Director is 3.0.2, backing up a 32bit Windows Vista client running 3.0.3. >>>> >>>> After adding onefs=no to the FileSet options in the director, I get the >>>> error messages during the backup: >>>> >>>> Cannot open "C:/Documents and Settings/.../":ERR=A required privilege is >>>> not >>>> held by the client. >>>> >>>> And, >>>> >>>> Could not open directory "C:/Documents and Settings/.../":ERR=Access is >>>> denied >>>> >>>> What do I need to do to allow bacula to backup these directories? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> These are not real directories. They are symlinks pointing to the real >>> directory in C:/Users/.. that Microsoft installs by default for backward >>> compatibility with older software that (sloppily) assumes user >>> directories are in "C:/Documents and Settings/..". Either ignore the >>> messages or exclude the C:/Documents and Settings directory so Bacula >>> doesn't attempt to back them up. They are not needed, as the files are >>> in the real directory in C:/Users/.. >>> >> I case you should need them after a restore the MS Sysinternals Suite >> has tools to recreate those junctions - you have to do that by hand though. >> >> > > Yes, I don't think there is any way to back them up. They are not like > symlinks in, for example, a Linux ext2 filesystem. It is a portion of > the same filesystem mounted at another mountpoint. In Linux, this is > called a "bind mount". Which leads me to wonder what happens when > backing up a Linux client that has bind mounts? Does Bacula know it is a > bind mount? And if so, how does it handle it? Is the bind mount > "remembered" or do the files get backed up twice? Are junction points > handled by the Windows client in the same way bind mounts are handled by > the Linux client?
AFAIK it is possible to programmatically to detect and / or create junctions points on Windows - if I find the time I will investigate this further and see how and if this could be integrated into the Windows FD. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, > Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW > http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards Henrik Johansen hen...@scannet.dk Tlf. 75 53 35 00 ScanNet Group A/S ScanNet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
