Re: [Bacula-users] latest bacula client (bacula-fd) for Windows

Kern Sibbald Thu, 24 Apr 2014 14:11:22 -0700

On 04/24/2014 03:06 PM, Tomáš Brandýský wrote:

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.

That is strange, I don't recall us making any changes there.

Is there any way we could install 6.0.6 bacula-fd silently on Windows machines ?

Would you open a but report (there may already be one) and post a screenshot of the *exact* error message that is printed. If it doesn't come up as a window then run the installer in a cmd window and include the *exact* error message. Having the exact error message will allow me to track down the place where there is a missing test for the /S option.

Best regards,
Kern

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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