Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-05 Thread Shawn
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 10:48 -0700, Steve Ellis wrote: > On 8/5/2009 9:34 AM, Shawn wrote: > > > Yes, the problem is the "Hello command" which was introduced in 3.x > > > > On a 2.x director, it will simply state "Hello command rejected" as > > the failure in connecting to the FD from the dir

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-05 Thread Steve Ellis
On 8/5/2009 9:34 AM, Shawn wrote: Yes, the problem is the "Hello command" which was introduced in 3.x On a 2.x director, it will simply state "Hello command rejected" as the failure in connecting to the FD from the director, I've tested this before and go the same results regardless of the pla

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-05 Thread Shawn
Thanks, On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 17:54 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 05 Aug 2009, Shawn wrote: > > > > Has anyone looked into compiling a 64-bit v2.4 package? > > > Would that resolve this? I'm also trying the hotfix mentioned in another > > response, will see if that does the

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-05 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 05 Aug 2009, Shawn wrote: > > Has anyone looked into compiling a 64-bit v2.4 package? > Would that resolve this? I'm also trying the hotfix mentioned in another > response, will see if that does the trick first. If these posts are to be believed, it might. http://www.adsm.o

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-05 Thread Shawn
Would that resolve this? I'm also trying the hotfix mentioned in another response, will see if that does the trick first. On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:29 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > Hi John > > On Wed, 05 Aug 2009, John Drescher wrote: > > > > I'm pretty sure I had a problem doing that. Off t

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-05 Thread Shawn
Yes, the problem is the "Hello command" which was introduced in 3.x On a 2.x director, it will simply state "Hello command rejected" as the failure in connecting to the FD from the director, I've tested this before and go the same results regardless of the platform (Mac OS X PPC/Intel, Fedora 6 i3

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-05 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi John On Wed, 05 Aug 2009, John Drescher wrote: > > I'm pretty sure I had a problem doing that.  Off the top of my head there's > > some complaint about a hello not getting responded to properly.  Possibly > > the v3 bacula-fd doesn't like talking to a v2 bacula-sd, I'm not sure. > > > > I'd lo

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-05 Thread John Drescher
>> I don't think it's recommended but I don't think you'll have any problems >> installing a 3.0.2 fd and using it with a 2.4.4 dir+sd. > > I'm pretty sure I had a problem doing that.  Off the top of my head there's > some complaint about a hello not getting responded to properly.  Possibly > the v

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-05 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 05 Aug 2009, James Harper wrote: > > We're primarily a 95% linux desktop and server environment, with some > > Macs, but we have a couple of pain in the necks we need to back up and I'm > > concerned about VSS. One is a Windows Server 2008 64-bit, and another is > > Vista 64-bit.

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-04 Thread Kevin Keane
I don't know if this is your problem, but there is a bug in VSS for both Vista and Windows 2008 that causes VSS to time out and fail. I don't know what the symptom would be in bacula, but it's entirely possible that you are seeing that. Check your event log for any related events. The issue is

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-04 Thread James Harper
> Hello folk, > > We're primarily a 95% linux desktop and server environment, with some > Macs, but we have a couple of pain in the necks we need to back up and I'm > concerned about VSS. One is a Windows Server 2008 64-bit, and another is > Vista 64-bit. Some things back up fine, but, I get

[Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-04 Thread Shawn
Hello folk, We're primarily a 95% linux desktop and server environment, with some Macs, but we have a couple of pain in the necks we need to back up and I'm concerned about VSS. One is a Windows Server 2008 64-bit, and another is Vista 64-bit. Some things back up fine, but, I get the followi