Re: [Bacula-users] Backup from windows

2024-04-17 Thread Mehrdad Ravanbod
Thanks Rob, appreciate the answer, some very interesting, how ever my main problem is that part of the back needs to be done via the Bacuka Windows agent if i understand the documentation correctly, the windows agent is the only way to do backups via VSS on a windows machine so that the ACL at

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup from windows

2024-04-16 Thread Rob Gerber
Mehrdad, I don't know if I can help with all of your questions but I have some information for you. I back up samba shares for a machine that I cannot get shell access onto. The only way for me to access the files on this Nas is via smb. For this case, on the bacula server, I have mounted the rel

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup from windows

2024-04-16 Thread Rob Gerber
Oh! One thing I forgot to mention: if you do not define the file, job, or volume retention periods, this does not mean that everything will be retained forever. Instead, bacula uses the default retention periods (I think they are 365 days, not sure). Any volume or job retention period specified i

[Bacula-users] Backup from windows

2024-04-16 Thread Mehrdad Ravanbod
Hi guys I am new to bacula and trying to figure it out and testing atm I have it installed on a RHEL9 server with clients on 2 windows computer ( one server, one win7 client) and trying to set up backups both via VSS and indiviual file/folders to disk(mainly a NAS and shares) Only problem is