On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm in the process of testing Bacula 2.3.22 (SVN) server and I noticed when I > backup winbacula 2.2.10-b4 client (windows 2003 r2 sp2 32bit) 50% of the > backup jobs fail with "ERR=Access is denied" error.. > > bconsole says this: > > JobId 5: Generate VSS snapshots. Driver="VSS Win 2003", Drive(s)="C" > JobId 5: Could not stat C:/Program Files: ERR=Access is denied. > > My test backup job for that client is trying to backup only "c:\program > files". > The same error seems to happen also if I try to backup some other directory. > > Winbacula runs as SYSTEM user on Windows. Next time when I run the job it > works just fine.. and the next time it fails.. and the next time it works. > > Exactly every second works and every second fails.. > Can you disable any antivirus or antispyware when you run bacula and see if you get the same behavior? > > I don't know if Windows VSS goes into some bad state because of Bacula or if > that's some problem with Windows itself.. or some application installed on > Windows. Windows event log doesn't have any errors or warnings. > > The alarming thing is that when the job fails with that "ERR=Access is denied" > zero files and zero mbytes are backup up.. but the job status is still > "Backup OK -- with warnings".. > > I think that's definitely not OK.. the whole backup has failed but the > status is still "OK".. > Although I think the warning was by design (too many errors with VSS) I will have to leave this one up to the developers.
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