Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula VSS problems / ERR=Access is denied

2008-10-09 11:38:31
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula VSS problems / ERR=Access is denied
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik AT iki DOT fi>
To: yistoneriver <densuke434 AT yahoo.co DOT jp>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 18:32:43 +0300
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 06:16:51AM -0700, yistoneriver wrote:
> 
> My colleague and I looked into this issue and found that we could reproduce
> this behavior under the following conditions:
> 
> 1) FD runs on Windows 2003 Server
> 2) VSS is enabled
> 3) Only one file-list is listed in FileSet resource
> 4) the file-list is a folder (directory)
> 
> So, a workaround is to add a dummy file-list.  I hope this will help.
> 

Hi!

Actually yes, I think this was exactly the situation I had. There was only
one directory specified for backups!

The problem went away when we added more directories/disks.. 

So yeah, it sounds like a bug.. 

Thanks a lot for pointing this out! 

-- Pasi

> -Yuji
> 
> 
> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 07:09:58PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 09:40:23AM -0400, John Drescher wrote:
> >> > > btw. is there a way to make bacula automatically rerun jobs failing
> >> like this?
> >> > >
> >> > Although I have never done this the following two bacula directives
> >> > look like they could help:
> >> > 
> >> > Run After Failed Job
> >> > 
> >> > Rerun Failed Levels
> >> > 
> >> > http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html
> >> > 
> >> 
> >> Hmm.. it almost looks like 50% of the times I get that VSS error.. ie.
> >> every
> >> second time it works and every second time it doesn't.
> >> 
> >> What's interesting is that the job itself terminates with "OK with
> >> warnings".. it's definitely not OK because it does absolutely nothing.. 
> >> 0 files backup up when that Access is denied happens.. 
> >> 
> > 
> > Yeah, did some 8 more test runs and 4 of them failed with that VSS
> > ERR=Access is denied error.. 
> > 
> > Is it possible that winbacula leaves VSS in some bad state? That would
> > maybe explain why it works every second time.. or is it more likely that 
> > there is something on the server causing this? 
> > 
> > -- Pasi
> > 

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