Hello,
it seems we've finally found the source of the strange behaviour we were
experiencing with bacula-fw on Windows.
The powershell scripts which was supposed to return the list of files for
backup terminated with errors when it was run under system account (in
which bacula-fd is run) and bacula-fd did read all the error messages and
tried to interpret them as a list for backup which ended up by backing up
everything bacula can read on user's PC.
Would it be possible for bacula-fd to terminate the backup operation in
case the script which is supposed to return the list of files does
terminate with error return code ?
Anyway, we have decided to buy enterprise Windows bacula-fd client licences
as it was suggested.
bacula-fd 6.0.6 clients seem to have at least much less memory footprint
than the community 5.2.10 version over the same filesets.
Yet have we another trouble with these enterprise 6.0.6 bacula-fd clients.
We are using centralized management system over Windows domain which allows
us automatic software distribution to all of our computers. We used to run
bacula-fd 5.2.0 with "/S" parameter on every single Windows client to
perform silent/background installation on user's PC. Now, with 6.0.6
bacula-fd this parameter doesn't seem to work.
Is there any way we could install 6.0.6 bacula-fd silently on Windows
machines ?
Thank you
Tomas
On 22 April 2014 14:43, Tomáš Brandýský <tomas.brandy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems to me the best choice to make sure one has working and stable
> backup solution of Windows machine is to buy a bacula-fd version from
> Bacula Systems.
> We are currently facing a bug with the following configuration:
>
> 1. Bacula director is in 5.2.13 version
> 2. we have following fileset configured for Windows clients:
>
> FileSet {
> Name = "Fileset_Windows_userpc_default_data"
> Enable VSS = yes
>
> Include {
> Options {
> signature = MD5
> onefs=yes
> ignore case=yes
> noatime=yes
> compression=GZIP
> }
>
> File = "\\|powershell.exe\ -file\ \"C:\\Program\
> Files\\Bacula\\data2backup.ps1\""
>
> }
> }
>
> Important point of this configuration is the possibility of reading the
> filelist from powershell script which is run on client's side (bacula-fd
> for Windows in 5.2.10 version) every time the backup is performed and is
> generated dynamically.
>
> 3. backup starts,runs and finishes without any problem with most of the
> file lists returned by powershell on client's side but sometimes Bacula
> seems to perform backups of entire disk like crazy regardless of what files
> are returned by powershell script. Normaly, when backup runs without
> glitches I can see from bconsole via status->client what files are
> currently backed up by client (C:\something). When bacula goes crazy and
> starts to backup whole disk I can see the client is currently backing up
> strange paths (without leading C:\) like "/$Recycle.Bin/some_folders_here".
>
> We've found out this strange behaviour is somehow connected with the file
> list given by powershell script. We thought there could be some strange
> strings or leading spaces in the output but it didn't prove. It's even more
> strange as when we run the powershell script on the affected machine
> redirecting the output to file and then change the fileser configuration to
> read the file list from this files (File = "\\<C:\\Program\
> Files\\Bacula\\data2backup.txt") the backup runs as expected.
>
> This is the output of the powershell script on the affected computer:
>
> D:\Users\aperglerova\Favorites
> D:\Thunderbird Profile\hfkeo6lv.default\Extensions
> D:\Thunderbird Profile\hfkeo6lv.default\abook.mab
> D:\Thunderbird Profile\hfkeo6lv.default\history.mab
> D:\Users\jfidler\Favorites
> D:\Users\rrejnek\Favorites
> D:\Users\support\Favorites
> D:\Users\trejnek\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
> D:\Users\trejnek\Favorites
> D:\Users\tvolna\Favorites
> D:\Users\vmatlonova\Favorites
> D:\Work
>
>
> We were also further testing which path could cause the described
> behaviour and we think it's these three lines which bacula don't do good:
>
> D:\Thunderbird Profile\hfkeo6lv.default\Extensions
> D:\Thunderbird Profile\hfkeo6lv.default\abook.mab
> D:\Thunderbird Profile\hfkeo6lv.default\history.mab
>
> As a temporary workaround we run our powershell script regularly on all
> Windows clients with redirected output to file which is further read by
> Bacula from fileset.
> This seems to work as expected.
>
> Do you have any idea what could cause such problems when reading file list
> to backup from powershell output ?
>
> Thank you
>
> Tomas
>
>
>
> On 22 April 2014 12:38, Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com> wrote:
>
>> On 04/22/2014 11:48 AM, Tomáš Brandýský wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> what is actually the difference between community version and enterprise
>> version of bacula-fd for Windows ?
>> Is the paid version more stable or has more features ?
>>
>>
>> In general yes, it is much more stable, because it is build by Bacula
>> Systems (usually me) with the correct libraries and delivered to paying
>> customers. With other versions you get they may or may not be built with
>> the correct libraries (especially the correct Qt libraries). Yes, it has a
>> few more features because it is a later version. I do not have an exact
>> list of new features though.
>>
>>
>> I am asking because we have found an annoying bug when using bacula-fd
>> 5.2.10 on Windows. If this bug is already fixed in enterprise version we
>> would be glad to buy the licence of enterprise bacula-fd Windows client.
>>
>>
>> I don't always remember exactly what bugs are fixed in which version, but
>> I cannot even guess at an answer until you say what the annoying bug is.
>>
>>
>> As to the mentioned bug, where can I report this bug to make sure it will
>> be fixed in some further release of community version ?
>>
>>
>> At the moment, we are not planning a new community version because it is
>> too much work for me to maintain two different versions, build them and
>> test them.
>>
>> Hopefully by the end of April there will be a 6.6.7 (or later) version
>> that will be released by Bacula Systems, that does have a number of new
>> features (including functional IPv6, and many important security
>> improvements) and all bug fixes up until the 21st of April.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Kern
>>
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Tomas
>>
>>
>> On 21 April 2014 14:28, Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Yes, the old community Windows binaries should work with 7.0.x, but I
>>> have not explicitly tested it. Also the newer 6.0.6 binaries should work
>>> as well.
>>>
>>> I am just now fixing some bugs in the Windows FD, some of them long
>>> standing, and once that is done and tested they will be released. It is
>>> very likely that it will still be before the end of April. This will very
>>> likely be version 6.6.7. If all goes well, people who previously purchased
>>> a 6.0.6 version will be able to upgrade at half the already low price.
>>>
>>> I believe the community binaries for 7.0.2 are ready now (free), but we
>>> have not yet implemented a delivery mechanism, so this part will probably
>>> be finished a few weeks after the end of April.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Kern
>>>
>>> On 04/17/2014 12:27 PM, Luc Van der Veken wrote:
>>>
>>> http://blog.bacula.org/p710/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Second to last paragraph: “We are still working on new Windows binaries
>>> as well as releasing a full set of binaries for many platforms. Hopefully
>>> that will be finished before the end of April.”
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> To close the gap between 5.2.10 and 7.0, Windows binaries 6.0.6 are
>>> available commercially for a small fee at
>>> http://www.baculasystems.com/windows-binaries-for-bacula-community-users
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I don’t know if any of these can be used with 7.0.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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