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Hi guys,

I have been hunting around, but is there a trick to backing up Vista PCs?

I Couldn't get the Clients to work on the machines, so I mapped the drives to the Director. This gives the below error:

18-Feb 18:34 DIRECTOR JobId 1: Could not stat Y:\Users\CLIENT1\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook: ERR=The system cannot find the path specified.

18-Feb 18:34 DIRECTOR JobId 1: Could not stat Z:\Users\CLIENT2\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook: ERR=The system cannot find the path specified.

This is the FileSet definition, C & E drives are accessed without any errors.

FileSet {
Name = production-Server
Enable VSS = yes
Include {
Options {
Signature = MD5
verify = pins5
checkfilechanges = yes
ignore case = yes
portable = yes
}
File = "C:\\Apache2\\conf\\extra"
File = "E:\\backup\\bacula-database"
File = "Y:\\Users\\CLIENT1\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Outlook"
File = "Z:\\Users\\CLIENT2\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Outlook"
}
}

Is there a trick to this? Or am I missing something obvious?

Thanks :)

Dan

Daniels < at > es... wrote:

File = "Z:\\Users\\CLIENT2\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Outlook"
}
}


Is there a trick to this? Or am I missing something obvious?

http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION0014110000000000000000

Try using forward slashes, rather than escaped backslashes.

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I have been hunting around, but is there a trick to backing up Vista PCs?

What was the problem? Could not see the tray icon?


I Couldn't get the Clients to work on the machines, so I mapped the drives to the Director. This gives the below error:

You need to do the mount for the user that runs the bacula-fd service
and not the currently logged in user. A service will not see any
network mounts made under a different user under any NT based os.

John

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Frank Sweetser wrote:
Daniels < at > es... wrote:


File = "Z:\\Users\\CLIENT2\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Outlook"
}
}


Is there a trick to this? Or am I missing something obvious?


http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION0014110000000000000000

Try using forward slashes, rather than escaped backslashes.

Thanks Frank, it seems it should work either way. And it does on the C
& E (USB) drives. However the Y&Z drives that have been mapped are still
not available.

John Drescher wrote:

You need to do the mount for the user that runs the bacula-fd service
and not the currently logged in user. A service will not see any
network mounts made under a different user under any NT based os.

John

Thanks John,

But, I am confused. Bacula was installed by 'administrator' and the
services run as LocalSystem. But the mount was made under the current
user account (not admin). Which ownership should I change?

Thanks Guys
Dan

Thanks John,

But, I am confused. Bacula was installed by 'administrator' and the
services run as LocalSystem. But the mount was made under the current user
account (not admin). Which ownership should I change?


Services do not see the drive mappings for the local user (at least
they did not for NT4,Win2k or XP). I know that from programming
services myself. Possibly it would work if you logged in as the local
administrator and did the map then kept that user logged in for the
entire backup. I would rather fix your backup problem with vista than
this kludge.

John

On Feb 20, 2008 12:14 AM, Daniels < at > es...
<Daniels < at > es...> wrote:

Thanks John,

I'll see how it goes.

Here is more info on this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/149984

John