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

2014-05-04 Thread Kern Sibbald
On 04/25/2014 03:49 PM, compdoc wrote: >> I keep hearing talk of "old community code" which makes it sound like the >> Win32 support has become proprietary. > It does sound as if Bacula will eventually become the world's hardest to > install, pay-for backup solution. Not that I blame Bacula for goi

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

2014-05-04 Thread Kern Sibbald
On 04/25/2014 01:46 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: >> On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:47:49 +0200, Kern Sibbald said: >> On 04/22/2014 03:30 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:38:13 +0200, Kern Sibbald said: In general yes, it is much more stable, because it is build by Bacul

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

2014-04-25 Thread Mark
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:22 AM, compdoc wrote: > > Not to worry: as of windows 7, windows backup is still broken > > Windows 7 Pro backup is ok, but it does break easily and doesn't tell you > that its stopped working... > > How are you running the Windows backup? As a scheduled task on Windo

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

2014-04-25 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 04/25/2014 09:57 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 04/25/14 10:44, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: >> On 4/25/2014 8:49 AM, compdoc wrote: >> >>> However, I think without open source Windows clients people won't take the >>> considerable time it takes to learn how to install Bacula, and they will >>> turn t

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

2014-04-25 Thread compdoc
> Not to worry: as of windows 7, windows backup is still broken Windows 7 Pro backup is ok, but it does break easily and doesn't tell you that its stopped working... -- Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo

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

2014-04-25 Thread John Drescher
> If you have Windows 7 Pro, Windows Backup is actually fairly usable as > an image-backup tool, though it's nearly worthless for file-level > restore. If you have Windows 7 Home, it's intentionally crippled. I'm > actually considering a hybrid approach - Win7 native image backup for > bare-metal

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

2014-04-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/25/14 10:44, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On 4/25/2014 8:49 AM, compdoc wrote: > >> However, I think without open source Windows clients people won't take the >> considerable time it takes to learn how to install Bacula, and they will >> turn to other solutions. > > Not to worry: as of windows 7

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

2014-04-25 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 4/25/2014 8:49 AM, compdoc wrote: > However, I think without open source Windows clients people won't take the > considerable time it takes to learn how to install Bacula, and they will > turn to other solutions. Not to worry: as of windows 7, windows backup is still broken and the rest of th

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

2014-04-25 Thread compdoc
> I keep hearing talk of "old community code" which makes it sound like the >Win32 support has become proprietary. It does sound as if Bacula will eventually become the world's hardest to install, pay-for backup solution. Not that I blame Bacula for going closed source: money is a strong motivator

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

2014-04-25 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:47:49 +0200, Kern Sibbald said: > > On 04/22/2014 03:30 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: > >> On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:38:13 +0200, Kern Sibbald said: > >> In general yes, it is much more stable, because it is build by > >> Bacula Systems (usually me) with the correct libra

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

2014-04-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
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

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

2014-04-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On 04/22/2014 03:30 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: >> On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:38:13 +0200, Kern Sibbald said: >> 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

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

2014-04-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
My best guess is that the output from powershell forms a directive something like:   File = D:\Thunderbird Profile\hfkeo6lv.default\Extensions   ... as seen by the Bacula parser, which is absolutely not going to work because it has spaces in it

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

2014-04-24 Thread Tomáš Brandýský
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 bacul

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

2014-04-22 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:38:13 +0200, Kern Sibbald said: > > 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

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

2014-04-22 Thread Tomáš Brandýský
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 configur

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

2014-04-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
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

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

2014-04-22 Thread Tomáš Brandýský
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 ? 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 enter

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

2014-04-21 Thread Kern Sibbald
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 on

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

2014-04-17 Thread Tomáš Brandýský
Thank you very much for a quick response. Tomas On 17 April 2014 12:27, 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 > wi

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

2014-04-17 Thread Luc Van der Veken
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 avai

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

2014-04-17 Thread Tomáš Brandýský
Hello, could anyone give me a hint where I could get the latest bacula-fd client for Windows, please ? The latest version of Windows client found at Bacula site is in version 5.2.10 whereas the latest Bacula server version is 7.0.2. Is bacula-fd in version 5.2.10 fully compatible with latest bac