This agent will have a different install path from other agents downloaded from the CFA. You may of course change the installation path but these instructions do not cover that topic. Please follow these instructions to complete the install and establish communication between the client and the CFA. I don't have this on my computer, so I cannot give the exact details. If you want to see if the File daemon has properly opened the port and is listening, you can enter the following command in a shell window:.
TopView is another program that has been recommend, but it is not a standard Windows program, so you must find and download it from the Internet. If you do not have the Win BMR program, we do not have a good solution for disaster recovery on Windows.
Microsoft releases a Windows Pre-installation Environment WinPE that could possibly work, but we have not investigated it. This means that until someone figures out the correct procedure, you must restore the OS from the installation disks, then you can load a Bacula client and restore files. Please don't count on using bextract to extract files from your backup tapes during a disaster recovery unless you have backed up those files using the portable option. Once you have an operational Windows OS loaded, you can run the File daemon and restore your user files.
In general, specifying these two options should allow you to backup any file on a Windows system. However, in some cases, if users have allowed to have full control of their folders, even system programs such a Bacula can be locked out.
In this case, you must identify which folders or files are creating the problem and do the following:. If you restore files backed up from Windows to an alternate directory, Bacula may need to create some higher level directories that were not saved or restored. As of version 1.
However, there may be cases where you have problems accessing those files even if you run as administrator. In principle, Microsoft supplies you with the way to cease the ownership of those files and thus change the permissions.
However, a much better solution to working with and changing Windows permissions is the program SetACL , which can be found at setacl. If you have not installed Bacula while running as Administrator and if Bacula is not running as a Process with the userid User Name SYSTEM, then it is very unlikely that it will have sufficient permission to access all your files.
Some users have experienced problems restoring files that participate in the Active Directory. They also report that changing the userid under which Bacula bacula-fd. The steps are performed using Windows Server but they should apply to most Windows platforms. The procedure outlines how to deal with a problem which arises when a restore creates a top-level new directory.
The problem appears as a directory which cannot be browsed with Windows Explorer. The symptoms include the following message when you try to click on that directory:.
Popup on permission issue. If you encounter this message, the following steps will change the permissions to allow full access.
If the following message appears, you can ignore it, and click on OK. Message to ignore. Properties security. Properties security advanced owner. Confirm granting permissions. In addition to the above methods of changing permissions, there is a Microsoft program named cacls that can perform similar functions. Bacula Systems provides specific white papers on the components that are available for the VSS plugin.
His suggestion is to do an NTBackup of the critical system state prior to running a Bacula backup with the following command:. Finally if there are any damaged or missing system files or registry problems, you run NTBackup and catalogue the system statefile, and then select it for restore.
The documentation says you can't run a command line restore of the systemstate. To the best of my knowledge, this has not yet been tested. If you test it, please report your results to the Bacula email list. Note, Bacula uses VSS to backup and restore open files and system files, but on older Windows machines such as WinNT and Win, VSS is not implemented by Microsoft so that you must use some special techniques to back them up as described above.
On new Windows machines, Bacula will backup and restore all files including the system state providing you have VSS enabled in your Bacula FileSet default. If this is not the case, you probably have not installed Bacula while running as Administrator, and hence it will be unlikely that Bacula can access all the system files. Sometimes Windows machines the File daemon may have very slow backup transfer rates compared to other machines.
The default size is larger, and apparently some Windows ethernet controllers do not deal with a larger network buffer size. Many Windows ethernet drivers have a tendency to either run slowly due to old broken firmware, or because they are running in half-duplex mode. Please check with the ethernet card manufacturer for the latest firmware and use whatever techniques are necessary to ensure that the card is running in duplex.
If you are not using the portable option, and you have VSS Volume Shadow Copy enabled in the Director, and you experience problems with Bacula not being able to open files, it is most likely that you are running an antivirus program that blocks Bacula from doing certain operations.
In this case, disable the antivirus program and try another backup. The most likely source of problems is authentication when the Director attempts to connect to the File daemon that you installed. This can occur if the names and the passwords defined in the File daemon's configuration file bacula-fd. More specifically, the password found in the Client resource in the Director's configuration file must be the same as the password in the Director resource of the File daemon's configuration file.
In addition, the name of the Director resource in the File daemon's configuration file must be the same as the name in the Director resource of the Director's configuration file.
It is a bit hard to explain in words, but if you understand that a Director normally has multiple Clients and a Client or File daemon may permit access by multiple Directors, you can see that the names and the passwords on both sides must match for proper authentication.
One user had serious problems with the configuration file until he realized that the Unix end of line conventions were used and Bacula wanted them in Windows format. This has not been confirmed though, and Bacula version 2. Running Unix like programs on Windows machines is a bit frustrating because the Windows command line shell DOS Window is rather primitive.
As a consequence, it is not generally possible to see the debug information and certain error messages that Bacula prints. With a bit of work, however, it is possible. When everything else fails and you want to see what is going on, try the following:. Start a DOS shell Window. The precise path to bacula-fd depends on where it is installed. The -t option will cause Bacula to read the configuration file, print any error messages and then exit. If something is going wrong later, or you want to run Bacula with a debug option, you might try starting it as:.
In later versions of Bacula 1. To enable this, before running a job, use the console, and enter:. In addition, you should look in the System Applications log on the Control Panel to find any Windows errors that Bacula got during the startup process.
If you are having problems with ClientRunBeforeJob scripts randomly dying, it is possible that you have run into an Oracle bug. See bug number in the bugs. The following information has been provided by a user on this issue:. Although this is reported as fixed in JDK 1. You may wish to start the daemon with debug mode on rather than doing it using bconsole. To do so, edit the following registry key:.
If you are not using the VSS Volume Shadow Copy option described in the next section of this chapter, and if any applications are running during the backup and they have files opened exclusively, Bacula will not be able to backup those files, so be sure you close your applications or tell your users to close their applications before the backup.
Fortunately, most Microsoft applications do not open files exclusively so that they can be backed up. However, you will need to experiment. VSS Volume Shadow Copy Service support allows Bacula to create backups of open files and applications in the middle of the working process - creating consistent data copies. Since VSS is quite old as a technology — quite a lot of Windows-based applications were already adapted to its specifics. One more important detail is that the VSS snapshot saves the state of the data at the moment when the process began, thus not saving any changes to the data that were made in the process of snapshot creation.
Windows has always given their users some version of the most basic backup and restore tool, for the last few versions, at least. Depending on your current Windows version, you might have one or two of those installed on your system already. And, obviously, modern-day Windows Windows 7, 8, 10 backup tools are much more useful and efficient than the legacy ones.
As the Windows 7 evolved in Windows 8 — Backup and Restore got completely replaced by another tool called File History. However, Windows 8. Windows 10 continued that trend, and all of its versions to this day have both File History and Backup and Restore available. However, with the release of Windows 7, a lot of users found out about its existence. File History is a standard backup tool for Windows since Windows 8.
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