I have been running the same version of Bacula on a Windows 2k12 server for over a year (5.2.10). A few weeks ago, we started getting all our jobs failing over the weekend due to an apparent issue with VSS. Has anyone encountered the following fatal error:
20-Apr 19:30 bacula-zha JobId 5546: Start Backup JobId 5546, Job=Software_Share_Backup_-_Encrypted.2015-04-20_19.30.00_41 20-Apr 19:30 bacula-zha JobId 5546: Using Device "FileStorage-software" to write. 20-Apr 19:30 bacula-zha JobId 5546: Sending Accurate information. 20-Apr 19:30 bacula-sd JobId 5546: Volume "zha-software-encrypted-vol0360" previously written, moving to end of data. 20-Apr 19:30 bacula-sd JobId 5546: Ready to append to end of Volume "zha-software-encrypted-vol0360" size=1775302040 20-Apr 19:30 fs01 JobId 5546: Fatal error: VSS API failure calling "CoInitialize". ERR=Unexpected error. The error code is logged in the error log file. 20-Apr 19:30 fs01 JobId 5546: Fatal error: VSS was not initialized properly. ERR=Cannot create a file when that file already exists. 20-Apr 19:30 fs01 JobId 5546: Fatal error: VssOject is NULL. 20-Apr 19:30 bacula-sd JobId 5546: Elapsed time=00:00:06, Transfer rate=0 Bytes/second 20-Apr 19:30 bacula-zha JobId 5546: Error: Bacula bacula-zha 5.2.13 (19Jan13): The only way to "fix" this is to reboot the client. Items I have tried: * Restarted the Bacula service on the client - backups still failed * Tested connection to client using the 'estimate' command, success. Issue isolated to Windows server. * List current VSS instances via cmd prompt (vssadmin list writers) - All states reported as Stable / No writers reporting errors * Manually create a shadow copy on the client (vssadmin create shadow /for=e: ) and then manually remove all shadow copies (vssadmin delete shadows /all) - backup still fails * Ran System File Checker (sfc /scannow) - No issues found, backups still fail After rebooting the client, backups using VSS work fine for a few days and then start failing with the same FATAL error. It is not always the same job that fails first. On the client, these entries are logged in C:\Program Files\Bacula\working\zhfs01.trace fs01: vss_generic.cpp:366-0 VSSClientGeneric::Initialize: CoInitialize returned 0x80070008 If anyone has any ideas on how to further troubleshoot this issue, or have encountered this before, I'd greatly appreciate it.[/img] +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by bumba...@hotmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard Learn Process modeling best practices with Bonita BPM through live exercises http://www.bonitasoft.com/be-part-of-it/events/bpm-camp-virtual- event?utm_ source=Sourceforge_BPM_Camp_5_6_15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VA_SF _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users