Re: [Bacula-users] VSS reporting files corrupted or unreadable

2011-11-08 Thread Avery Ceo
The answers will make more sense if I rearrange the questions: On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 08:07 -0500, Avery Ceo wrote: > On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 10:17 +1100, James Harper wrote: > Create a snapshot manually. This guy blogs about how to do it > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adioltean/archive/2005/01/20/357836.

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS reporting files corrupted or unreadable

2011-11-08 Thread Avery Ceo
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 10:17 +1100, James Harper wrote: > > Are there any other messages in the event logs about the vss snapshot > process? > I didn't see anything else significant, but I will look again in a few hours. > What you describe would indicate that the problem is Windows rather than

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS reporting files corrupted or unreadable

2011-11-08 Thread Avery Ceo
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 01:13 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >Yes, MySQL is running on this server. To the best of my knowledge, no > >VSS writer exists for MySQL. > > MySQL? How the heck is windows VSS supposed to quiesce MySQL? > > Methinks you are sol with that approach, you'd probably have b

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS reporting files corrupted or unreadable

2011-11-07 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Yes, MySQL is running on this server. To the best of my knowledge, no >VSS writer exists for MySQL. MySQL? How the heck is windows VSS supposed to quiesce MySQL? Methinks you are sol with that approach, you'd probably have better luck using a run before script and a "mysql" supported method...

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS reporting files corrupted or unreadable

2011-11-07 Thread James Harper
> > We have been running Bacula on Windows with VSS disabled, but would like > to turn it on for disaster recovery purposes. In our tests on a fully patched > version of Windows Server 2003, we are running into a problem where files > that can be backed up without VSS are being reported as "corru

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS reporting files corrupted or unreadable

2011-11-07 Thread Avery Ceo
On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 18:52 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >Has anybody seen this issue before? Any suggestions on how to resolve > >it? > > So, when you enable a writer in VSS, if for example you only manually snapshot > one drive while components under the control of that writer exist on anot

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS reporting files corrupted or unreadable

2011-11-07 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Has anybody seen this issue before? Any suggestions on how to resolve >it? So, when you enable a writer in VSS, if for example you only manually snapshot one drive while components under the control of that writer exist on another, VSS will exclude the writer. I see you're trying to backup db'

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS reporting files corrupted or unreadable

2011-11-07 Thread Avery Ceo
On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 21:59 +0400, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: > On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:40:18 -0500 > Avery Ceo wrote: > > > We have been running Bacula on Windows with VSS disabled, but would > > like to turn it on for disaster recovery purposes. In our tests on a > > fully patched version of W

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS reporting files corrupted or unreadable

2011-11-07 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:40:18 -0500 Avery Ceo wrote: > We have been running Bacula on Windows with VSS disabled, but would > like to turn it on for disaster recovery purposes. In our tests on a > fully patched version of Windows Server 2003, we are running into a > problem where files that can be

[Bacula-users] VSS reporting files corrupted or unreadable

2011-11-07 Thread Avery Ceo
We have been running Bacula on Windows with VSS disabled, but would like to turn it on for disaster recovery purposes. In our tests on a fully patched version of Windows Server 2003, we are running into a problem where files that can be backed up without VSS are being reported as "corrupted or unr