> 
> 24.11.2009 21:15, John Drescher wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:54 AM, MrShoubs
> > <bacula-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:
> >> We have a remote site with a windows server, our main site has a
> >> mixture of windows and ubuntu boxe's.
> >>
> >> I just need to know if Bacula allow back ups to the remote
> >> windows server disk?
> >>
> >> I'm guessing it won't as there is no storage daemon for windows?
> >
> > It will allow you to do this. There is a storage daemon for
> > windows. I am not sure if it is still not officially supported
> > though.
> 
> It's not officially supported - I believe Kern even plans to no longer
> have it in the windows installer in the future.
> 
> The reason is that there's no developer in the project who can support
> issues of the windows software beyond the FD. So, if you know an
> experienced windows developer with too much spare time... ;-)
> 

Additionally, I have had all sorts of problems with the SD under 2008
x64 (ie I saw problems there, they may or may not exist under other
windows flavours). Basically, the call to write data to the tape drive
fails for no apparent reason. My workaround is to just retry on failure
and hope that the operation succeeds before the retry limit is exceeded.
There is nothing wrong with the Bacula code that I can see, just the
Windows API is returning a fail every so often for no good reason -
there was already a retry built into the code, I just had to increase
the limit by a fair bit more.

You almost certainly won't have problems with backing up to disk, but I
think Kern's plan to remove it from the installer is a good one, lest it
starts to suffer from bitrot.

James


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