[Bacula-users] Fwd: bacula won't backup files with apostrophes

I'm a TSA at a large school board. The server is at my main school, but because of new policies that came in when we switched over to Active Directory from Novell I don't have login rights to the fileserver anymore. This means that I can't install the bacula client.

There is no sane backup solution at my biggest school so I decided to use Ubuntu LTS, a terrabyte external HD and bacula. I do the backups in the middle of the night (which, of course, is how bacula really likes to work ;-) and workstations are shut down at 6:30 PM so the number of open files is minimal. This really is the best I can do at the moment unfortunately.

I'm trying to document how well things work (and, except for this issue, they work perfectly) so that I can argue for the client being installed on the server. I don't hold out much hope though.

Mark Coolen

On 13 April 2010 08:26, Craig Ringer <craig AT postnewspapers.com DOT au> wrote:

On 13/04/10 20:10, Mark Coolen wrote:

Thanks for the ideas. I can't run the bacula client on the server, so
I'm forced to do things this way (I know it isn't, and that's a huge
understatement, the right way to do it).

Yeah, yer not kidding. For one thing, there's no way to use the volume shadow copy service over a cifs mount from a *nix box, so you won't be able to back up files that're open on the Windows box by a local app or one using a file remotely over smb/cifs. You also won't be able to get consistent copies of files that're written to at the time of backup.

You really can't get *any* saner backup option than this?

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