Ok, I'm new to Bacula but I'm in no way new to IT or backups. I've
been around the "IT block" many times in the 20+ years I've been doing
this.

Anyways, here is a little back ground. The company I work for sets up
many international project offices with from 5 to 100+ users. I've
been asked to come up with a solution that will work in our smaller
project offices of 5 to 10 people, but provide basically the same
features of our larger offices, just with a reduced cost. Currently
the company has always used some sort of Windows offering, but when
80% of the cost of a server is just Windows and it's licenses, that
just isn't going to work any more.

So, I'm working on a Linux server that will basically do all the core
functions of our Windows offering but for quite a bit less $$$. At
this point I've got most everything working, but need to come up with
a backup strategy. Now, I've used Symantec's offerings for many years,
so that is where my knowledge is. With this being Linux I didn't feel
tar and/or rsync would work to the same level as Backup Exec etc
would, so in my investigating I turned to Bacula.

After a very steep learning curve (Google and I have become very close
friends during this week), I've got my Linux server backing up with
Bacula to an external USB drive. That seems to be working fine in it's
basic setup (although there are seveal more "tweaks" I would like to
do, but that will come later.) So, now I turn to backing up a Windows
client. I've got the client/fd defined, have my schedule setup, my
volume/sd is setup. Now, I go about configuring the file set. I'm
trying to use wilddir and wildfile definitions to not backup alot of
the "extra" windows crap. However, I keep getting the error - No drive
letters found for generating VSS snapshots and Could not stat
"'"C:/Documents": ERR=The system cannot find the path specified. I've
scoured Google and it has helped me get this far, but I just don't see
what I'm doing wrong here (been a long week, so I must be tired and
just not seeing it.)

Here is the file set for this backup:

FileSet {
  Name = "Default WinXP File Set"
  Enable VSS = yes
  Include {
    Options {
      wilddir = "C:/Documents and Settings/*/Cookies"
      wilddir = "C:/Documents and Settings/*/Recent"
      wilddir = "C:/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/Temp"
      wilddir = "C:/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/History"
      wilddir = "C:/Documents and Settings/*/My Documents/My Music"
      wilddir = "C:/Documents and Settings/*/My Documents/My Videos"
      wilddir = "*temporary internet files*"
      wildfile = "*pagefile.sys"
      wildfile = "*.log"
      exclude = yes
    }
    Options {
      signature = MD5
      Compression = GZIP9
      ignore case = yes
    }
    File = '"C:/Documents and Settings"'
  }
  Exclude {
    File = "c:/temp"
  }
}

Since I'm connecting to the director and everything else seems to be
working correctly, I haven't included the other conf files, but if it
would help.

Anyways, if someone could point me in the right direction I would be
greatful. For now I feel it an accomplishment to have the server at
least backed up.

Thanks,
Brian

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