[Bacula-users] Win32 testing

[Marc B. d. M. <bru...@is...>]

Hi @ all !

I have continued testing bacula on win32 machines.
Unfortunately I have not much time for testing , but here are a few results.

( I am using 1.31-beta 22May03 (dir,sd,fd))

1. 	The Backup of 9x,NT/2k/XP machines seems to work, exept a few exeptions:
	...
	Brueckner-fd:      Cannot open c:/WINNT/system32/config/system: ERR=Der 	
	Prozeß kann nicht auf die Datei zugreifen, da
	sie von einem anderen Prozeß verwendet wird..
	(The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another 	
	process. )
	... on WIN NT, but this seems to be OK
	
	A little bit strage is the following message:
	...
	HP-NB001-fd: HP-NB001.2003-05-28_13.15.41 Error: Read error on file 	
	c:/windows/OPTIONS/CABS/WIN98_24.CAB. ERR=Die Zugriffsnummer ist 	
	nicht definiert.

	(The handle is invalid. )
	... on Win98 , I don't know the reason for that !?

2.	Reststoring works on Win NT , but only after I compiled the win32 filedeamon 
	( 1.31 22May ). the 1.31 20May used to hang in the middle of the restore with
	100 % CPUtime
	Afer the restore I have to reset the userrights for the restored files, but that's 	
	OK .
	One strange thing:
	The bacula console message spoke of an Restore Error, while the log said 	
	that the restore was succesfull. ?
	A binary compare to the original files showed, that the restore was 		
	successful !
	It is better to add the driveletter in the bacula-fd.conf e.g.
	WorkingDirectory = c:/bacula/working
	instead of
	WorkingDirectory = /bacula/working 
	Before adding the driveletter bacula had problems transferring the bootstrap 	
	file to the client.
	Brueckner-fd: RestoreFiles.2003-05-22_12.35.28 Fatal error: Could not 	
	create bootstrap file /bacula/working/Brueckner-fd.RestoreFiles.2003-05-	
	22_12.35.28.bootstrap: ERR=No such file or directory


3.	Restoring on win 98 dosen't work at all !
	I tried to restore files on a win98 machine.These files were previously backed 
	up on this machine.
	The Restore process only creates the directory structure of the backup, but 	
	no files at all.
	...
	HP-NB001-fd: RestoreFiles.2003-05-28_13.31.19 Error: create_file.c:159 	
	Could not create c:/tmp/windows/SYSTEM/LMRTREND.DLL: ERR=Der 	
	Parameter stimmt nicht.

	(The parameter is incorrect. )
	...
	The same effect occurs when I try to restore files on a Win98 machine that 	
	were backed up from a WinNT machine.

4.	Restoring Win NT files on Linux dosent work	, but its OK (JFYI)

5.	The "List last 20 Jobs run" dosent work correctly.
	It dosent show the last 20 jobs , but some older ones.

P.S. Having a cancel option in each menu on the console would be useful !	

It would be interesting for me to hear about other users and their experiences in 
backing up and restoring win32 machines with bacula.

Now I feel sorry for annoying so much.

CU	
Marc