Re: [Bacula-users] Unlisted fstype on MS-XP

[John Kodis]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 07:56:22PM +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote:

 This option is not implemented in Win32 systems. 
 
 Or, in other words, you can't do that with windows.

Ouch!  I'm sorry for not having read the fine manual far enough to
have spotted that, but it never occurred to me that the fstype=ntfs
option would only work with non-Microsoft clients!

 Usually you don't have the related problems, though - typically, all
 partitions on a windows machine do have their own drive letters, so
 it's unlikely you will accidentally backup too much stuff.

What I'm really after is some simple way to identify and back up all
the local, disk-backed files on each machine.  On Linux machines, I
can do this by putting file = /, onefs = no, and fstype = ext2 in a
fileset, and that will pick up all the local disk partitions while
skipping NFS imports, CDs, /proc, /sysfs, and the like.

I was hoping to be able to do something similar with Microsoft
clients, using a single fileset for all these machines and using the
fstype = ntfs option used to screen out CDs and SMB shares.  That way
I wouldn't have to modify the backup configuration when someone added
a new disk to their PC.

It looks like it may be best to just manually track the drive letters
though.  That won't be a great deal of effort, I was just looking for
an easy way to automate it.  Thanks again for the clarification and
help.

-- John Kodis.


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Re: [Bacula-users] Unlisted fstype on MS-XP

[Arno Lehmann]

Hello,

On 2/2/2006 4:53 PM, John Kodis wrote:

I'm trying to add my first Microsoft XP client to a well established
Bacula installation, but if I include the fstype = ntfs
specification in the fileset/include/options resource, attempts to
estimate the job size fail with the report that Top level directory
C:/ has an unlisted fstype, although XP sees this as an NTFS
partition. 


Yes. From the manual:

ext2, jfs, ntfs, proc, reiserfs, xfs, usbdevfs, sysfs, smbfs, iso9660. 
For ext3 systems, use ext2.


You may have multiple Fstype directives, and thus permit matching of 
multiple filesystem types within a single Options resource. If the type 
specified on the fstype directive does not match the filesystem for a 
particular directive, that directory will not be backed up. This 
directive can be used to prevent backing up non-local filesystems. 
Normally, when you use this directive, you would also set onefs=no so 
that Bacula will traverse filesystems.


This option is not implemented in Win32 systems. 

Or, in other words, you can't do that with windows.

Usually you don't have the related problems, though - typically, all 
partitions on a windows machine do have their own drive letters, so it's 
unlikely you will accidentially backup too much stuff. (It is possible 
to use the equivalent of mounting to a directory in windows, but 
Microsoft doesn't actually make propaganda for it... although many 
windows installations could gain by it.)




Thanks in advance for any insights that you can offer.


Always a pleasure ;-)

Arno

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