> I'm not quite convinced - for two reasons
> 1) I did some tests starting bacula-dir, bacula-sd, bacula-fd manually and 
> got the some results
>
You ran bacula-fd directly in a command window?

> 2) The backup target is a TrueCrypt drive assigned to a drive letter
>
That will not work when run as a service. It may work when bacula-fd
runs in in a cmd window as the logged on user.

> If I used UNC paths what would the right syntax be?
> References to start-before jobs etc are written as C:\\directory\program 
> while file sets are written with a forward slash. Which one would be the 
> correct synxtax.

Use forward slashes.

> I know how to check the number of files considered for backup using the 
> 'estimate' command but is there another way like a debug log?
>
Not that I know of.

John

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