[Bacula-users] Backup of Vista is not very robust...

I am having a lot of difficulty getting a full backup of Vista systems, most of the time it fails with some kind of network error, usually after several gigabytes/hours have elapsed. I do not get this when doing a full backup of Linux systems (even from the same system when it is dual booted between Linux and Vista, so not likely a hardware failure). It is frustrating because doing a full backup of most systems takes well over a day to complete (several gigabytes...) and can result in extra delays of getting good backups of other systems. In all cases of a failure with Vista, I see the following sort of error message -

23-May 09:43 stephslaptop-fd JobId 160: Fatal error: /tmp/bacula/bacula/src/filed/backup.c:1019 Network send error to SD. ERR=Input/output error

Is this a known issue with Vista? Is there a workaround? Does the Bacula File Daemon actually try several times to send the data across the network before giving up, or does it simply fail on the first try? In other words, is the File Daemon very robust? If this is an issue, couldn't a Resume backup of some kind be implemented so that we don't lose all the time starting over when the next backup is scheduled to run?

   Marc...

Here is the output reported via the emailed results, in case it is useful to see this in the context of how the backup ran....

> 22-May 15:41 stephslaptop-fd JobId 160: Generate VSS snapshots. Driver="VSS Vista", Drive(s)="C"
> 22-May 15:44 stephslaptop-fd JobId 160:      C:/Documents and Settings is a different filesystem. Will not descend from C:/ into C:/Documents and Settings
> 22-May 20:36 stephslaptop-fd JobId 160:      C:/ProgramData/Application Data is a different filesystem. Will not descend from C:/ into C:/ProgramData/Application Data
> 22-May 20:36 stephslaptop-fd JobId 160:      C:/ProgramData/Desktop is a different filesystem. Will not descend from C:/ into C:/ProgramData/Desktop
> 22-May 20:36 stephslaptop-fd JobId 160:      C:/ProgramData/Documents is a different filesystem. Will not descend from C:/ into C:/ProgramData/Documents
> 22-May 20:36 stephslaptop-fd JobId 160:      C:/ProgramData/Favorites is a different filesystem. Will not descend from C:/ into C:/ProgramData/Favorites
> 22-May 20:40 stephslaptop-fd JobId 160:      C:/ProgramData/Start Menu is a different filesystem. Will not descend from C:/ into C:/ProgramData/Start Menu
> 22-May 20:40 stephslaptop-fd JobId 160:      C:/ProgramData/Templates is a different filesystem. Will not descend from C:/ into C:/ProgramData/Templates
> 23-May 09:43 stephslaptop-fd JobId 160: Fatal error: /tmp/bacula/bacula/src/filed/backup.c:1019 Network send error to SD. ERR=Input/output error
> 23-May 09:46 stephslaptop-fd JobId 160: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "System Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
> 23-May 09:46 stephslaptop-fd JobId 160: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "MSSearch Service Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
> 23-May 09:46 stephslaptop-fd JobId 160: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "ASR Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
> 23-May 09:46 stephslaptop-fd JobId 160: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "BITS Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
> 23-May 09:46 stephslaptop-fd JobId 160: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "Registry Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
> 23-May 09:46 stephslaptop-fd JobId 160: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "WMI Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
> 23-May 09:46 stephslaptop-fd JobId 160: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "Shadow Copy Optimization Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
> 23-May 09:46 stephslaptop-fd JobId 160: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "COM+ REGDB Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
> 23-May 09:46 bigbang-sd JobId 160: JobId=160 Job="stephslaptop.2010-05-22_15.35.55_03" marked to be canceled.
> 23-May 09:46 bigbang-dir JobId 160: Error: Bacula bigbang-dir 5.0.1 (24Feb10): 23-May-2010 09:46:06
>   Build OS:               x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu suse 11.2
>   JobId:                  160
>   Job:                    stephslaptop.2010-05-22_15.35.55_03
>   Backup Level:           Full (upgraded from Incremental)
>   Client:                 "stephslaptop-fd" 5.0.2 (28Apr10) Linux,Cross-compile,Win32
>   FileSet:                "Stephslaptop Set" 2010-05-21 15:05:47
>   Pool:                   "StephsLaptopPool" (From Job resource)
>   Catalog:                "MyCatalog" (From Client resource)
>   Storage:                "File" (From Job resource)
>   Scheduled time:         22-May-2010 15:35:53
>   Start time:             22-May-2010 15:35:58
>   End time:               23-May-2010 09:46:06
>   Elapsed time:           18 hours 10 mins 8 secs
>   Priority:               10
>   FD Files Written:       80,038
>   SD Files Written:       0
>   FD Bytes Written:       26,375,717,733 (26.37 GB)
>   SD Bytes Written:       0 (0 B)
>   Rate:                   403.2 KB/s
>   Software Compression:   None
>   VSS:                    yes
>   Encryption:             no
>   Accurate:               no
>   Volume name(s):         StephsLaptopVol0018
>   Volume Session Id:      1
>   Volume Session Time:    1274567735
>   Last Volume Bytes:      25,998,335,932 (25.99 GB)
>   Non-fatal FD errors:    0
>   SD Errors:              0
>   FD termination status: Error
>   SD termination status: Error
>   Termination:            *** Backup Error ***
>
>

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