On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Chris Lieb
<chris.lieb+nospam AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
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> On 3/30/2009 8:53 AM, John Drescher wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Bill Szkotnicki <bszk AT uoguelph DOT ca> 
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I have the backup sort of working for windows vista.
>>> The FileSet I am using is below in this message.
>>> Questions:
>>>
>>> 1) I am still getting this message:
>>>
>>> apscnm234bjf-fd JobId 5175:      C:/Users/jfrance/Documents/My Pictures
>>> is a different filesystem. Will not descend from
>>> C:/Users/jfrance/Documents into C:/Users/jfrance/Documents/My Pictures
>>>
>>> The bacula fd is running on vista under the "system account" and it
>>> "will not descend.
>>> And yet the backup of C:/Users/jfrance/Pictures is fine.
>>> I can't even see "C:/Users/jfrance/Documents/My Pictures" on the client
>>> machine ( a notebook on my desk )
>>> But surely it is the same set of files?????
>>>
>>> 2) Is there a way to wildcard the username part in the FileSet?
>>> Something like C:/Users/*/*"
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks, Bill
>>>
>>> FileSet {
>>>  Name = "vista-files"
>>>  Include {
>>>    Options {
>>>      Compression=GZIP
>>>      signature=SHA1
>>>      Sparse = yes
>>>    }
>>>    File = "C:/Users/jfrance/Contacts"
>>>    File = "C:/Users/jfrance/Desktop"
>>>    File = "C:/Users/jfrance/Documents"
>>>    File = "C:/Users/jfrance/Downloads"
>>>    File = "C:/Users/jfrance/Pictures"
>>>  }
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I thought the consensus from several users last week was not to backup
>> C:\Users because this is actually a symlink to the real location and
>> that real location should have already been in your fileset for a
>> normal backup?
>>
>> John
>
> C:\Users is a real location.  It's folders like C:\Users\username\My
> Pictures that are not real directories.  For the OP, you don't need to
> do anything about these messages.  They're just informative in this
> case.  I get messages like that on most of the computers that I back up
> since Bacula is set, by default, to only back up the filesystem that is
> part of an include path.
>
> You won't see the directories that Bacula is not descending into by
> default on Vista.  They are hidden directories.  If you want to see
> them, you have to make Windows Explorer show hidden directories.
>
Thanks for the correction. I guess I have to do more testing with
Vista/Windows7 before I can try to give help..

John

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