>>>>> On Fri, 06 May 2011 08:42:38 +0200, Jeremy Maes said:
> 
> Op 5/05/2011 15:56, Martin Simmons schreef:
> >>>>>> On Thu, 05 May 2011 09:27:03 +0200, Jeremy Maes said:
> >> Op 4/05/2011 18:07, Gavin McCullagh schreef:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> like many people I imagine, we get various warnings from the Bacula
> >>> daemons, particularly the file daemons.  There are some which seem like
> >>> it would be nice to simply suppress them and some which are severe and I'd
> >>> actually like more attention drawn to them.
> >>>
> >>> To give an example, on a director's laptop, every backup comes with a slew
> >>> of:
> >>>
> >>> 04-May 15:50 yyyyyy-fd JobId 14235:      c:/Users/Default/SendTo is a 
> >>> junction point or a different filesystem. Will not descend from c:/ into 
> >>> it.
> >>> 04-May 15:50 yyyyyy-fd JobId 14235:      c:/Users/Default/Start Menu is a 
> >>> junction point or a different filesystem. Will not descend from c:/ into 
> >>> it.
> >>> 04-May 15:50 yyyyyy-fd JobId 14235:      c:/Users/Default/Templates is a 
> >>> junction point or a different filesystem. Will not descend from c:/ into 
> >>> it.
> >>> 04-May 15:50 yyyyyy-fd JobId 14235:      c:/Users/Default User is a 
> >>> junction point or a different filesystem. Will not descend from c:/ into 
> >>> it.
> >>>
> >>> There are no fewer than 163 of these messages, which makes the resulting 
> >>> backup
> >>> email very hard to read.  These warnings are totally benign and happen on 
> >>> every
> >>> single backup.  It would be great to have a way to suppress them so.
> >> This is just the standard Bacula way of telling you "Hey, I encountered
> >> a junction point! But because I'm smart I didn't back up the files again."
> >> All you need to do to suppress those messages is add all the junction
> >> points on the given windows system to the exclude list of your filesystem.
> >> Bacula will then no longer mention skipping them as you explicitly told
> >> it to do so.
> > Have you tried doing a restore from this?  If you exclude them, then they
> > won't be in the backup so that might produce an incomplete setup (unless
> > Windows recreates them).
> >
> > __Martin
> Can't say I've tried a full machine restore from a windows backup as our 
> clients mostly need to restore single files from backup (office 
> documents etc).
> In a disaster recovery scenario we'd just do a fresh windows install and 
> restore all files from backup, the JP's should be in place from the 
> fresh install.

Maybe, maybe not.

A fresh install will create JPs for the C:/Users/Default, but it won't do it
for any other users.  It probably depends on how you restore the profiles of
those users.


> Btw, I was under the impression Bacula couldn't restore junction points 
> correctly? (the folder yes, but not the actual JP) So even backing them 
> up for a restore wouldn't achieve the goal I think?

I've heard conflicting claims about this, so I don't know if it can or not.

__Martin

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