> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bacula-users-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Gerszewski
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 12:07 PM
> To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc: Robert Nelson
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Windows Client, VSS Issues, 2.0.3?
>
> Thanks for the quick response.
>
> vssadmin list writers:
> vssadmin 1.0 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
> (C) Copyright 2001 Microsoft Corp.
>
> Writer name: 'MSDEWriter'
> Writer Id: {f8544ac1-0611-4fa5-b04b-f7ee00b03277}
> Writer Instance Id: {b9048c82-c0b6-42e8-b885-3ddc806474bd}
> State: [1] Stable
>
> Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
> Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
> Writer Instance Id: {a4358c3f-d8b3-4e32-971a-a1aa47f7b0fb}
> State: [9] Failed
>
> Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'
> Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
> Writer Instance Id: {38ebb2dd-0122-48e1-915e-23ce2aed2e95}
> State: [9] Failed
>
Interesting the above two seemed to have failed their initialization.
> Writer name: 'Microsoft Writer (Bootable State)'
> Writer Id: {f2436e37-09f5-41af-9b2a-4ca2435dbfd5}
> Writer Instance Id: {9470d858-515e-47d9-bf71-ba1a26782a69}
> State: [1] Stable
>
> Writer name: 'Microsoft Writer (Service State)'
> Writer Id: {e38c2e3c-d4fb-4f4d-9550-fcafda8aae9a}
> Writer Instance Id: {1a9ca255-4ad6-4172-9d04-d433e9958d33}
> State: [1] Stable
>
> --------------
>
> vssadmin list shadows (while backup is running):
>
> vssadmin 1.0 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
> (C) Copyright 2001 Microsoft Corp.
>
>
> Contents of shadow copy set {26035bf3-a48b-4993-afcb-6f48affefd4c}
> (The shadow copy set contained 1 shadow copies at creation time, 1
> shadow copie
> s exist now)
> 'MS Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0' shadow copy
> {d6dc446b-5cae-46bb-a555-d344
> c70d65e5} on volume \\?\Volume{d27e6118-47d1-11d9-aa59-806d6172696f}\
>
> ------------------
That looks good.
>
> vssadmin list shadows (after backup completes):
>
> vssadmin 1.0 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
> (C) Copyright 2001 Microsoft Corp.
>
> No shadow copies present in the system.
>
> -----------------
That looks very good, doesn't seem we have any leftover crud.
>
> A couple more notes that may or may not make a difference. I am running
> SQL Server Express 2005 on this system, and the event logs show the
> databases freezing and unfreezing during the bacula backups. The log is
> telling me the database was successfully backed up, but I am not backing
> up anything from my SQL databases (to my knowledge).
>
That's expected, the system doesn't know what we'll be backing up at the
time we initiate the shadow.
> Thanks
>
> Mike
>
Can you also post the output from "vssadmin list shadows" when the backup is
hung? Meanwhile, I'll check and make sure we release all our interface
pointers.
>
> Robert Nelson wrote:
> > What is the output from the command "vssadmin list writers"?
> >
> > Also what is the output from the command "vssadmin list shadows" after
> the
> > successful backup but prior to the next backup?
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bacula-users-
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Gerszewski
> >> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 11:27 AM
> >> To: bacula-users
> >> Subject: [Bacula-users] Windows Client, VSS Issues, 2.0.3?
> >>
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> I have been evaluating Bacula for the School District I work for as a
> >> backup option for our Windows 2003 Servers. I like many of the
> features
> >> Bacula has compared to other solutions. I have been testing with 2.0.3
> >> with the director on a linux box, a storage daemon on a Windows 2003
> >> box, and a file daemon on an XP box. I installed the Linux portion
> from
> >> RPMs and the Windows client with the windows installer.
> >>
> >> I have it configured to do Disk backups. The first couple of days,
> >> everything worked OK with small backups without much change (~100 MB
> >> full, 1-2 MB incremental). Then I switched to a larger amount of files
> >> (~28 GB with ~800 MB of change per day). Now the FD seems to hang up.
> >> Here are the symptoms:
> >>
> >> If I start off a fresh boot, the first backup on this machine will work
> >> fine. If I do not reboot the computer, or kill the bacula-fd and
> >> vssvc.exe processes, the next backup will do one of two things:
> >>
> >> 1) Backup all the way to the end, and just hang
> >> or
> >> 2) Not start the backup at all and sit at 0 Bytes/files
> >>
> >> I can break this cycle by killing the vssvc.exe process (Volume Shadow
> >> Copy). Then the backup finishes successfully, and incidentally
> >> vssvc.exe start again. If it hung at the beginning, it will generally
> >> give a warning or error that VSS could not start and the backup will be
> >> done without VSS.
> >>
> >> One thing that seems odd is that the vssvc.exe process is always
> >> running, even when there isn't a backup running. When I look at our
> >> servers that are running the MS backup utility, vssvc.exe is only
> >> running while a backup is in progress.
> >>
> >> For our implementation, I really need to be able to use VSS, so I have
> >> not tried it with VSS disabled.
> >>
> >> Any assistance would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Mike Gerszewski
> >>
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