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-\chapter{The Windows Version of Bacula}
-\label{Win32Chapter}
-\index[general]{Windows Version of Bacula}
-
-At the current time only the File daemon or Client program has
-been thouroughly tested on Windows and is suitable for a
-production environment. As a consequence, when we
-speak of the Windows version of Bacula below, we are referring to
-the File daemon (client) only.
-
-As of Bacula version 1.39.20 or greater, the installer is capable
-of installing not just the Client program, but also the Director
-and the Storage daemon and all the other programs that were
-previously available only on Unix systems. These additional
-programs, notably the Director and Storage daemon, have been partially
-tested, are reported to have some bugs, and still need to be documented.
-They are not yet supported, and we cannot currently accept or fix
-bug reports on them. Consequently, please test them carefully before putting
-them into a critical production environment.
-
-The Windows version of the Bacula File daemon has been tested on Win98, WinMe,
-WinNT, WinXP, Win2000, and Windows 2003 systems. We have coded to support
-Win95, but no longer have a system for testing. The Windows version of
-Bacula is a native Win32 port, but there are very few source code changes
-to the Unix code, which means that the Windows version is for the most part
-running code that has long proved stable on Unix systems. When running, it
-is perfectly integrated with Windows and displays its icon in the system
-icon tray, and provides a system tray menu to obtain additional information
-on how Bacula is running (status and events dialog boxes). If so desired,
-it can also be stopped by using the system tray menu, though this should
-normally never be necessary.
-
-Once installed Bacula normally runs as a system service. This means that it is
-immediately started by the operating system when the system is booted, and
-runs in the background even if there is no user logged into the system.
-
-\section{Win32 Installation}
-\label{installation}
-\index[general]{Installation}
-\index[general]{Win32!Installation}
-
-Normally, you will install the Windows version of Bacula from the binaries.
-This install is standard Windows .exe that runs an install wizard using the
-NSIS Free Software installer, so if you have already installed Windows
-software, it should be very familiar to you.
-
-If you have a previous version Bacula (1.39.20 or lower)
-installed, you should stop the service, uninstall it, and remove
-the Bacula installation directory possibly saving your
-bacula-fd.conf, bconsole.conf, and bwx-console.conf files
-for use with the new version you will install. The Uninstall
-program is normally found in {\bf c:\textbackslash{}bacula\textbackslash{}Uninstall.exe}.
-We also recommend that you completely remove the directory
-{\bf c:\textbackslash{}bacula}, because the current installer
-uses a different directory structure (see below).
-
-Providing you do not already have Bacula installed,
-the new installer (1.39.22 and later) installs the binaries and dlls in
-c:\textbackslash{}Program Files\textbackslash{}Bacula\textbackslash{}bin
-and the configuration files
-in c:\textbackslash{}Documents and Settings\textbackslash{}All Users\textbackslash{}Application Data\textbackslash{}Bacula
-In addition, the {\bf Start\-\gt{}All Programs\-\gt{}Bacula} menu item
-will be created during the installation, and on that menu, you
-will find items for editing the configuration files, displaying
-the document, and starting bwx-console or bconsole.
-
-
-Finally, proceed with the installation.
-
-\begin{itemize}
-\item You must be logged in as Administrator to the local machine
-to do a correct installation, if not, please do so before continuing.
-Some users have attempted to install logged in as a domain administrator
-account and experienced permissions problems attempting to run
-Bacula, so we don't recommend that option.
-
-\item Simply double click on the {\bf winbacula-1.xx.0.exe} NSIS install
- icon. The actual name of the icon will vary from one release version to
- another.
-
-\includegraphics{\idir win32-nsis.eps} winbacula-1.xx.0.exe
-
-\item Once launched, the installer wizard will ask you if you want to install
- Bacula.
-
-\addcontentsline{lof}{figure}{Win32 Client Setup Wizard}
-\includegraphics{\idir win32-welcome.eps}
-
-\item Next you will be asked to select the installation type.
-
-\addcontentsline{lof}{figure}{Win32 Installation Type}
-\includegraphics{\idir win32-installation-type.eps}
-
-
-\item If you proceed, you will be asked to select the components to be
- installed. You may install the Bacula program (Bacula File Service) and or
- the documentation. Both will be installed in sub-directories of the install
- location that you choose later. The components dialog looks like the
- following:
-
-\addcontentsline{lof}{figure}{Win32 Component Selection Dialog}
-\includegraphics{\idir win32-pkg.eps}
-\index[general]{Upgrading}
-
-\item If you are installing for the first time, you will be asked to
- enter some very basic information about your configuration. If
- you are not sure what to enter, or have previously saved configuration
- files, you can put anything you want into the fields, then either
- replace the configuration files later with the ones saved, or edit
- the file.
-
- If you are upgrading an existing installation, the following will
- not be displayed.
-
-
-\addcontentsline{lof}{figure}{Win32 Configure}
-\includegraphics{\idir win32-config.eps}
-
-\item While the various files are being loaded, you will see the following
- dialog:
-
- \addcontentsline{lof}{figure}{Win32 Install Progress}
- \includegraphics{\idir win32-installing.eps}
-
-
-\item Finally, the finish dialog will appear:
-
- \addcontentsline{lof}{figure}{Win32 Client Setup Completed}
- \includegraphics{\idir win32-finish.eps}
-
-\
-\end{itemize}
-
-That should complete the installation process. When the Bacula File Server is
-ready to serve files, an icon \includegraphics{\idir idle.eps} representing a
-cassette (or tape) will appear in the system tray
-\includegraphics{\idir tray-icon.eps}; right click on it and a menu will appear.\\
-\includegraphics{\idir menu.eps}\\
-The {\bf Events} item is currently unimplemented, by selecting the {\bf
-Status} item, you can verify whether any jobs are running or not.
-
-When the Bacula File Server begins saving files, the color of the holes in the
-cassette icon will change from white to green \includegraphics{\idir running.eps},
-and if there is an error, the holes in the cassette icon will change to red
-\includegraphics{\idir error.eps}.
-
-If you are using remote desktop connections between your Windows boxes, be
-warned that that tray icon does not always appear. It will always be visible
-when you log into the console, but the remote desktop may not display it.
-
-\section{Post Win32 Installation}
-\index[general]{Post Win32 Installation}
-\index[general]{Win32!Post Installation}
-
-After installing Bacula and before running it, you should check the contents
-of the configuration files to ensure that they correspond to your
-installation. You can get to them by using:
-the {\bf Start\-\gt{}All Programs\-\gt{}Bacula} menu item.
-
-Finally, but pulling up the Task Manager (ctl-alt-del), verify that Bacula
-is running as a process (not an Application) with User Name SYSTEM. If this is
-not the case, you probably have not installed Bacula while running as
-Administrator, and hence it will be unlikely that Bacula can access
-all the system files.
-
-\section{Uninstalling Bacula on Win32}
-\index[general]{Win32!Uninstalling Bacula}
-\index[general]{Uninstalling Bacula on Win32}
-
-Once Bacula has been installed, it can be uninstalled using the standard
-Windows Add/Remove Programs dialog found on the Control panel.
-
-\section{Dealing with Win32 Problems}
-\label{problems}
-\index[general]{Win32!Dealing with Problems}
-\index[general]{Dealing with Win32 Problems}
-
-Sometimes Win32 machines the File daemon may have very slow
-backup transfer rates compared to other machines. To you might
-try setting the Maximum Network Buffer Size to 32,768 in both the
-File daemon and in the Storage daemon. The default size is larger,
-and apparently some Windows ethernet controllers do not deal with
-a larger network buffer size.
-
-Many Windows ethernet drivers have a tendency to either run slowly
-due to old broken firmware, or because they are running in half-duplex
-mode. Please check with the ethernet card manufacturer for the latest
-firmware and use whatever techniques are necessary to ensure that the
-card is running in duplex.
-
-If you are not using the portable option, and you have VSS
-(Volume Shadow Copy) enabled in the Director, and you experience
-problems with Bacula not being able to open files, it is most
-likely that you are running an antivirus program that blocks
-Bacula from doing certain operations. In this case, disable the
-antivirus program and try another backup. If it succeeds, either
-get a different (better) antivirus program or use something like
-RunClientJobBefore/After to turn off the antivirus program while
-the backup is running.
-
-If turning off anti-virus software does not resolve your VSS
-problems, you might have to turn on VSS debugging. The following
-link describes how to do this:
-\elink{http://support.microsoft.com/kb/887013/en-us}{\url{http://support.microsoft.com/kb/887013/en-us}}.
-
-In Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 the VSS Writer for Exchange
-is turned off by default. To turn it on, please see the following link:
-\elink{http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q838183}{\url{
-http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q838183}}
-
-
-The most likely source of problems is authentication when the Director
-attempts to connect to the File daemon that you installed. This can occur if
-the names and the passwords defined in the File daemon's configuration file
-{\bf bacula-fd.conf} file on
-the Windows machine do not match with the names and the passwords in the
-Director's configuration file {\bf bacula-dir.conf} located on your Unix/Linux
-server.
-
-More specifically, the password found in the {\bf Client} resource in the
-Director's configuration file must be the same as the password in the {\bf
-Director} resource of the File daemon's configuration file. In addition, the
-name of the {\bf Director} resource in the File daemon's configuration file
-must be the same as the name in the {\bf Director} resource of the Director's
-configuration file.
-
-It is a bit hard to explain in words, but if you understand that a Director
-normally has multiple Clients and a Client (or File daemon) may permit access
-by multiple Directors, you can see that the names and the passwords on both
-sides must match for proper authentication.
-
-One user had serious problems with the configuration file until he realized
-that the Unix end of line conventions were used and Bacula wanted them in
-Windows format. This has not been confirmed though, and Bacula version 2.0.0
-and above should now accept all end of line conventions (Win32,
-Unix, Mac).
-
-Running Unix like programs on Windows machines is a bit frustrating because
-the Windows command line shell (DOS Window) is rather primitive. As a
-consequence, it is not generally possible to see the debug information and
-certain error messages that Bacula prints. With a bit of work, however, it is
-possible. When everything else fails and you want to {\bf see} what is going
-on, try the following:
-
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
- Start a DOS shell Window.
- c:\Program Files\bacula\bin\bacula-fd -t >out
- type out
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-
-The precise path to bacula-fd depends on where it is installed. The
-example above is the default used in 1.39.22 and later.
-The {\bf -t} option will cause Bacula to read the configuration file, print
-any error messages and then exit. the {\bf \gt{}} redirects the output to the
-file named {\bf out}, which you can list with the {\bf type} command.
-
-If something is going wrong later, or you want to run {\bf Bacula} with a
-debug option, you might try starting it as:
-
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
- c:\Program Files\bacula\bin\bacula-fd -d 100 >out
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-
-In this case, Bacula will run until you explicitly stop it, which will give
-you a chance to connect to it from your Unix/Linux server. In later versions
-of Bacula (1.34 on, I think), when you start the File daemon in debug mode it
-can write the output to a trace file {\bf bacula.trace} in the current
-directory. To enable this, before running a job, use the console, and enter:
-
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
- trace on
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-
-then run the job, and once you have terminated the File daemon, you will find
-the debug output in the {\bf bacula.trace} file, which will probably be
-located in the same directory as bacula-fd.exe.
-
-In addition, you should look in the System Applications log on the Control
-Panel to find any Windows errors that Bacula got during the startup process.
-
-Finally, due to the above problems, when you turn on debugging, and specify
-trace=1 on a setdebug command in the Console, Bacula will write the debug
-information to the file {\bf bacula.trace} in the directory from which Bacula
-is executing.
-
-If you are having problems with ClientRunBeforeJob scripts randomly dying,
-it is possible that you have run into an Oracle bug. See bug number 622 in
-the bugs.bacula.org database. The following information has been
-provided by a user on this issue:
-
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
-The information in this document applies to:
- Oracle HTTP Server - Version: 9.0.4
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003
- Symptoms
- When starting an OC4J instance, the System Clock runs faster, about 7
-seconds per minute.
-
- Cause
-
- + This is caused by the Sun JVM bug 4500388, which states that "Calling
-Thread.sleep() with a small argument affects the system clock". Although
-this is reported as fixed in JDK 1.4.0_02, several reports contradict this
-(see the bug in
-http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4500388).
-
- + Also reported by Microsoft as "The system clock may run fast when you
-use the ACPI power management timer as a high-resolution counter on Windows
-2000-based computers" (See http://support.microsoft.com/?id=821893)
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-
-You may wish to start the daemon with debug mode on rather than doing it
-using bconsole. To do so, edit the following registry key:
-
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Bacula-dir
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-
-using regedit, then add -dnn after the /service option, where nn represents
-the debug level you want.
-
-\label{Compatibility}
-\section{Windows Compatibility Considerations}
-\index[general]{Windows Compatibility Considerations}
-\index[general]{Considerations!Windows Compatibility}
-
-If you are not using the VSS (Volume Shadow Copy) option described in the
-next section of this chapter, and if any applications are running during
-the backup and they have files opened exclusively, Bacula will not be able
-to backup those files, so be sure you close your applications (or tell your
-users to close their applications) before the backup. Fortunately, most
-Microsoft applications do not open files exclusively so that they can be
-backed up. However, you will need to experiment. In any case, if Bacula
-cannot open the file, it will print an error message, so you will always
-know which files were not backed up. For version 1.37.25 and greater, see
-the section below on Volume Shadow Copy Service that permits backing up any
-file.
-
-During backup, Bacula doesn't know about the system registry, so you will
-either need to write it out to an ASCII file using {\bf regedit~~/e} or use a
-program specifically designed to make a copy or backup the registry.
-
-In Bacula version 1.31 and later, we use Windows backup API calls by
-default. Typical of Windows, programming these special BackupRead and
-BackupWrite calls is a real nightmare of complications. The end result
-gives some distinct advantages and some disadvantages.
-
-First, the advantages are that on WinNT/2K/XP systems, the security and
-ownership information is now backed up. In addition, with the exception of
-files in exclusive use by another program, Bacula can now access all system
-files. This means that when you restore files, the security and ownership
-information will be restored on WinNT/2K/XP along with the data.
-
-The disadvantage of the Windows backup API calls is that it produces
-non-portable backups. That is files and their data that are backed up on
-WinNT using the native API calls (BackupRead/BackupWrite) cannot be
-restored on Win95/98/Me or Unix systems. In principle, a file backed up on
-WinNT can be restored on WinXP, but this remains to be seen in practice
-(not yet tested). In addition, the stand-alone tools such as {\bf bls} and
-{\bf bextract} cannot be used to retrieve the data for those files because
-those tools are not available on Windows. All restores must use the Bacula
-{\bf restore} command. As of Bacula 1.39.x, thanks to Thorsten Engel, this
-restriction is removed, and Bacula should be able to read non-portable
-backups on any system and restore the data appropriately. However,
-on a system that does not have the BackupRead/BackupWrite calls (older
-Windows versions and all Unix/Linux machines), though the file data
-can be restored, the Windows security and access control data will not be restored.
-This means that a standard set of access permissions will be set for
-such restored files.
-
-
-As a default, Bacula backs up Windows systems using the Windows API calls.
-If you want to backup data on a WinNT/2K/XP system and restore it on a
-Unix/Win95/98/Me system, we have provided a special {\bf portable} option
-that backs up the data in a portable fashion by using portable API calls.
-See the \ilink{portable option}{portable} on the Include statement in a
-FileSet resource in the Director's configuration chapter for the details on
-setting this option. However, using the portable option means you may have
-permissions problems accessing files, and none of the security and
-ownership information will be backed up or restored. The file data can,
-however, be restored on any system.
-
-You should always be able to restore any file backed up on Unix or Win95/98/Me
-to any other system. On some systems, such as WinNT/2K/XP, you may have to
-reset the ownership of such restored files. Any file backed up on WinNT/2K/XP
-should in principle be able to be restored to a similar system (i.e.
-WinNT/2K/XP), however, I am unsure of the consequences if the owner
-information and accounts are not identical on both systems. Bacula will not
-let you restore files backed up on WinNT/2K/XP to any other system (i.e. Unix
-Win95/98/Me) if you have used the defaults.
-
-Finally, if you specify the {\bf portable=yes} option on the files you back
-up. Bacula will be able to restore them on any other system. However, any
-WinNT/2K/XP specific security and ownership information will be lost.
-
-The following matrix will give you an idea of what you can expect. Thanks to
-Marc Brueckner for doing the tests:
-
-\addcontentsline{lot}{table}{WinNT/2K/XP Restore Portability Status}
-\begin{longtable}{|l|l|p{2.8in}|}
- \hline
-\multicolumn{1}{|c|}{\bf Backup OS} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{\bf Restore OS}
-& \multicolumn{1}{c|}{\bf Results } \\
- \hline {WinMe} & {WinMe} & {Works } \\
- \hline {WinMe} & {WinNT} & {Works (SYSTEM permissions) } \\
- \hline {WinMe} & {WinXP} & {Works (SYSTEM permissions) } \\
- \hline {WinMe} & {Linux} & {Works (SYSTEM permissions) } \\
- \hline {\ } & {\ } & {\ } \\
- \hline {WinXP} & {WinXP} & {Works } \\
- \hline {WinXP} & {WinNT} & {Works (all files OK, but got "The data is invalid"
-message) } \\
- \hline {WinXP} & {WinMe} & {Error: Win32 data stream not supported. } \\
- \hline {WinXP} & {WinMe} & {Works if {\bf Portable=yes} specified during backup.} \\
- \hline {WinXP} & {Linux} & {Error: Win32 data stream not supported. } \\
- \hline {WinXP} & {Linux} & {Works if {\bf Portable=yes} specified during backup.}\\
- \hline {\ } & {\ } & {\ } \\
- \hline {WinNT} & {WinNT} & {Works } \\
- \hline {WinNT} & {WinXP} & {Works } \\
- \hline {WinNT} & {WinMe} & {Error: Win32 data stream not supported. } \\
- \hline {WinNT} & {WinMe} & {Works if {\bf Portable=yes} specified during backup.}\\
- \hline {WinNT} & {Linux} & {Error: Win32 data stream not supported. } \\
- \hline {WinNT} & {Linux} & {Works if {\bf Portable=yes} specified during backup. }\\
- \hline {\ } & {\ } & {\ } \\
- \hline {Linux} & {Linux} & {Works } \\
- \hline {Linux} & {WinNT} & {Works (SYSTEM permissions) } \\
- \hline {Linux} & {WinMe} & {Works } \\
- \hline {Linux} & {WinXP} & {Works (SYSTEM permissions)}
-\\ \hline
-\end{longtable}
-
-Note: with Bacula versions 1.39.x and later, non-portable Windows data can
-be restore to any machine.
-
-
-\label{VSS}
-\section{Volume Shadow Copy Service}
-\index[general]{Volume Shadow Copy Service}
-\index[general]{VSS}
-In version 1.37.30 and greater, you can turn on Microsoft's Volume
-Shadow Copy Service (VSS).
-
-Microsoft added VSS to Windows XP and Windows 2003. From the perspective of
-a backup-solution for Windows, this is an extremely important step. VSS
-allows Bacula to backup open files and even to interact with applications like
-RDBMS to produce consistent file copies. VSS aware applications are called
-VSS Writers, they register with the OS so that when Bacula wants to do a
-Snapshot, the OS will notify the register Writer programs, which may then
-create a consistent state in their application, which will be backed up.
-Examples for these writers are "`MSDE"' (Microsoft database
-engine), "`Event Log Writer"', "`Registry Writer"' plus 3rd
-party-writers. If you have a non-vss aware application (e.g.
-SQL Anywhere or probably MySQL), a shadow copy is still generated
-and the open files can be backed up, but there is no guarantee
-that the file is consistent.
-
-Bacula produces a message from each of the registered writer programs
-when it is doing a VSS backup so you know which ones are correctly backed
-up.
-
-Bacula supports VSS on both Windows 2003 and Windows XP.
-Technically Bacula creates a shadow copy as soon as the backup process
-starts. It does then backup all files from the shadow copy and destroys the
-shadow copy after the backup process. Please have in mind, that VSS
-creates a snapshot and thus backs up the system at the state it had
-when starting the backup. It will disregard file changes which occur during
-the backup process.
-
-VSS can be turned on by placing an
-
-\index[dir]{Enable VSS}
-\index[general]{Enable VSS}
-\begin{verbatim}
-Enable VSS = yes
-\end{verbatim}
-
-in your FileSet resource.
-
-The VSS aware File daemon has the letters VSS on the signon line that
-it produces when contacted by the console. For example:
-\begin{verbatim}
-Tibs-fd Version: 1.37.32 (22 July 2005) VSS Windows XP MVS NT 5.1.2600
-\end{verbatim}
-the VSS is shown in the line above. This only means that the File daemon
-is capable of doing VSS not that VSS is turned on for a particular backup.
-There are two ways of telling if VSS is actually turned on during a backup.
-The first is to look at the status output for a job, e.g.:
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
-Running Jobs:
-JobId 1 Job NightlySave.2005-07-23_13.25.45 is running.
- VSS Backup Job started: 23-Jul-05 13:25
- Files=70,113 Bytes=3,987,180,650 Bytes/sec=3,244,247
- Files Examined=75,021
- Processing file: c:/Documents and Settings/kern/My Documents/My Pictures/Misc1/Sans titre - 39.pdd
- SDReadSeqNo=5 fd=352
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-Here, you see under Running Jobs that JobId 1 is "`VSS Backup Job started ..."'
-This means that VSS is enabled for that job. If VSS is not enabled, it will
-simply show "`Backup Job started ..."' without the letters VSS.
-
-The second way to know that the job was backed up with VSS is to look at the
-Job Report, which will look something like the following:
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
-23-Jul 13:25 rufus-dir: Start Backup JobId 1, Job=NightlySave.2005-07-23_13.25.45
-23-Jul 13:26 rufus-sd: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume "TestVolume001" on device "DDS-4" (/dev/nst0)
-23-Jul 13:26 rufus-sd: Spooling data ...
-23-Jul 13:26 Tibs: Generate VSS snapshots. Driver="VSS WinXP", Drive(s)="C"
-23-Jul 13:26 Tibs: VSS Writer: "MSDEWriter", State: 1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
-23-Jul 13:26 Tibs: VSS Writer: "Microsoft Writer (Bootable State)", State: 1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
-23-Jul 13:26 Tibs: VSS Writer: "WMI Writer", State: 1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
-23-Jul 13:26 Tibs: VSS Writer: "Microsoft Writer (Service State)", State: 1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-In the above Job Report listing, you see that the VSS snapshot was generated for drive C (if
-other drives are backed up, they will be listed on the {\bf Drive(s)="`C"'} You also see the
-reports from each of the writer program. Here they all report VSS\_WS\_STABLE, which means
-that you will get a consistent snapshot of the data handled by that writer.
-
-\section{VSS Problems}
-\index[general]{Problems!VSS}
-\index[fd] {Problems!VSS}
-\index[general]{VSS Problems}
-\index[fd]{VSS Problems}
-
-If you are experiencing problems such as VSS hanging on MSDE, first try
-running {\bf vssadmin} to check for problems, then try running {\bf
-ntbackup} which also uses VSS to see if it has similar problems. If so, you
-know that the problem is in your Windows machine and not with Bacula.
-
-The FD hang problems were reported with {\bf MSDEwriter} when:
-\begin{itemize}
-\item a local firewall locked local access to the MSDE TCP port (MSDEwriter
-seems to use TCP/IP and not Named Pipes).
-\item msdtcs was installed to run under "`localsystem"': try running msdtcs
-under networking account (instead of local system) (com+ seems to work
-better with this configuration).
-\end{itemize}
-
-
-\section{Windows Firewalls}
-\index[general]{Firewalls!Windows}
-\index[general]{Windows Firewalls}
-
-If you turn on the firewalling feature on Windows (default in WinXP SP2), you
-are likely to find that the Bacula ports are blocked and you cannot
-communicate to the other daemons. This can be deactivated through the {\bf
-Security Notification} dialog, which is apparently somewhere in the {\bf
-Security Center}. I don't have this on my computer, so I cannot give the exact
-details.
-
-The command:
-
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
-netsh firewall set opmode disable
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-
-is purported to disable the firewall, but this command is not accepted on my
-WinXP Home machine.
-
-\section{Windows Port Usage}
-\index[general]{Windows Port Usage}
-\index[general]{Usage!Windows Port}
-
-If you want to see if the File daemon has properly opened the port and is
-listening, you can enter the following command in a shell window:
-
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
- netstat -an | findstr 910[123]
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-
-TopView is another program that has been recommend, but it is not a
-standard Win32 program, so you must find and download it from the Internet.
-
-\section{Windows Disaster Recovery}
-\index[general]{Recovery!Windows Disaster}
-\index[general]{Windows Disaster Recovery}
-
-We don't currently have a good solution for disaster recovery on Windows as we
-do on Linux. The main piece lacking is a Windows boot floppy or a Windows boot
-CD. Microsoft releases a Windows Pre-installation Environment ({\bf WinPE})
-that could possibly work, but we have not investigated it. This means that
-until someone figures out the correct procedure, you must restore the OS from
-the installation disks, then you can load a Bacula client and restore files.
-Please don't count on using {\bf bextract} to extract files from your backup
-tapes during a disaster recovery unless you have backed up those files using
-the {\bf portable} option. {\bf bextract} does not run on Windows, and the
-normal way Bacula saves files using the Windows API prevents the files from
-being restored on a Unix machine. Once you have an operational Windows OS
-loaded, you can run the File daemon and restore your user files.
-
-Please see
-\ilink{ Disaster Recovery of Win32 Systems}{Win3233} for the latest
-suggestion, which looks very promising.
-
-It looks like Bart PE Builder, which creates a Windows PE (Pre-installation
-Environment) Boot-CD, may be just what is needed to build a complete disaster
-recovery system for Win32. This distribution can be found at
-\elink{http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/}{\url{http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/}}.
-
-\section{Windows Restore Problems}
-\index[general]{Problems!Windows Restore}
-\index[general]{Windows Restore Problems}
-Please see the
-\ilink{Restore Chapter}{Windows} of this manual for problems
-that you might encounter doing a restore.
-
-section{Windows Backup Problems}
-\index[general]{Problems!Windows Backup}
-\index[general]{Windows Backup Problems}
-If during a Backup, you get the message:
-{\bf ERR=Access is denied} and you are using the portable option,
-you should try both adding both the non-portable (backup API) and
-the Volume Shadow Copy options to your Director's conf file.
-
-In the Options resource:
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
-portable = no
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-
-In the FileSet resource:
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
-enablevss = yes
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-
-In general, specifying these two options should allow you to backup
-any file on a Windows system. However, in some cases, if users
-have allowed to have full control of their folders, even system programs
-such a Bacula can be locked out. In this case, you must identify
-which folders or files are creating the problem and do the following:
-
-\begin{enumerate}
-\item Grant ownership of the file/folder to the Administrators group,
-with the option to replace the owner on all child objects.
-\item Grant full control permissions to the Administrators group,
-and change the user's group to only have Modify permission to
-the file/folder and all child objects.
-\end{enumerate}
-
-Thanks to Georger Araujo for the above information.
-
-\section{Windows Ownership and Permissions Problems}
-\index[general]{Problems!Windows Ownership and Permissions}
-\index[general]{Windows Ownership and Permissions Problems}
-
-If you restore files backed up from WinNT/XP/2K to an alternate directory,
-Bacula may need to create some higher level directories that were not saved
-(or restored). In this case, the File daemon will create them under the SYSTEM
-account because that is the account that Bacula runs under as a service. As of
-version 1.32f-3, Bacula creates these files with full access permission.
-However, there may be cases where you have problems accessing those files even
-if you run as administrator. In principle, Microsoft supplies you with the way
-to cease the ownership of those files and thus change the permissions.
-However, a much better solution to working with and changing Win32 permissions
-is the program {\bf SetACL}, which can be found at
-\elink{http://setacl.sourceforge.net/}{\url{http://setacl.sourceforge.net/}}.
-
-If you have not installed Bacula while running as Administrator
-and if Bacula is not running as a Process with the userid (User Name) SYSTEM,
-then it is very unlikely that it will have sufficient permission to
-access all your files.
-
-Some users have experienced problems restoring files that participate in
-the Active Directory. They also report that changing the userid under which
-Bacula (bacula-fd.exe) runs, from SYSTEM to a Domain Admin userid, resolves
-the problem.
-
-
-\section{Manually resetting the Permissions}
-\index[general]{Manually resetting the Permissions}
-\index[general]{Permissions!Manually resetting the}
-
-The following solution was provided by Dan Langille \lt{}dan at langille in
-the dot org domain\gt{}. The steps are performed using Windows 2000 Server but
-they should apply to most Win32 platforms. The procedure outlines how to deal
-with a problem which arises when a restore creates a top-level new directory.
-In this example, "top-level" means something like {\bf
-c:\textbackslash{}src}, not {\bf c:\textbackslash{}tmp\textbackslash{}src}
-where {\bf c:\textbackslash{}tmp} already exists. If a restore job specifies /
-as the {\bf Where:} value, this problem will arise.
-
-The problem appears as a directory which cannot be browsed with Windows
-Explorer. The symptoms include the following message when you try to click on
-that directory:
-
-\includegraphics{\idir access-is-denied.eps}
-
-If you encounter this message, the following steps will change the permissions
-to allow full access.
-
-\begin{enumerate}
-\item right click on the top level directory (in this example, {\bf c:/src})
- and select {\bf Properties}.
-\item click on the Security tab.
-\item If the following message appears, you can ignore it, and click on {\bf
- OK}.
-
-\includegraphics{\idir view-only.eps}
-
-You should see something like this:
-
-\includegraphics{\idir properties-security.eps}
-\item click on Advanced
-\item click on the Owner tab
-\item Change the owner to something other than the current owner (which is
- {\bf SYSTEM} in this example as shown below).
-
-\includegraphics{\idir properties-security-advanced-owner.eps}
-\item ensure the "`Replace owner on subcontainers and objects"' box is
- checked
-\item click on OK
-\item When the message "`You do not have permission to read the contents of
- directory c:\textbackslash{}src\textbackslash{}basis. Do you wish to replace
- the directory permissions with permissions granting you Full Control?"', click
-on Yes.
-
-\includegraphics{\idir confirm.eps}
-\item Click on OK to close the Properties tab
- \end{enumerate}
-
-With the above procedure, you should now have full control over your restored
-directory.
-
-In addition to the above methods of changing permissions, there is a Microsoft
-program named {\bf cacls} that can perform similar functions.
-
-\section{Backing Up the WinNT/XP/2K System State}
-\index[general]{State!Backing Up the WinNT/XP/2K System}
-\index[general]{Backing Up the WinNT/XP/2K System State}
-
-A suggestion by Damian Coutts using Microsoft's NTBackup utility in
-conjunction with Bacula should permit a full restore of any damaged system
-files on Win2K/XP. His suggestion is to do an NTBackup of the critical system
-state prior to running a Bacula backup with the following command:
-
-\footnotesize
-\begin{verbatim}
-ntbackup backup systemstate /F c:\systemstate.bkf
-\end{verbatim}
-\normalsize
-
-The {\bf backup} is the command, the {\bf systemstate} says to backup only the
-system state and not all the user files, and the {\bf /F
-c:\textbackslash{}systemstate.bkf} specifies where to write the state file.
-this file must then be saved and restored by Bacula.
-
-To restore the system state, you first reload a base operating system if the
-OS is damaged, otherwise, this is not necessary, then you would use Bacula to
-restore all the damaged or lost user's files and to recover the {\bf
-c:\textbackslash{}systemstate.bkf} file. Finally if there are any damaged or
-missing system files or registry problems, you run {\bf NTBackup} and {\bf
-catalogue} the system statefile, and then select it for restore. The
-documentation says you can't run a command line restore of the systemstate.
-
-To the best of my knowledge, this has not yet been tested. If you test it,
-please report your results to the Bacula email list.
-
-\section{Considerations for Filename Specifications}
-\index[general]{Windows!Considerations for Filename Specifications}
-
-Please see the
-\ilink{Director's Configuration chapter}{win32} of this manual
-for important considerations on how to specify Windows paths in Bacula FileSet
-Include and Exclude directives.
-
-\index[general]{Unicode}
-Bacula versions prior to 1.37.28 do not support Windows Unicode filenames.
-As of that version, both {\bf bconsole} and {\bf bwx-console} support Windows
-Unicode filenames. There may still be some problems with multiple byte
-characters (e.g. Chinese, ...) where it is a two byte character but the
-displayed character is not two characters wide.
-
-\index[general]{Win32 Path Length Restriction}
-Path/filenames longer than 260 characters (up to 32,000) are supported
-beginning with Bacula version 1.39.20. Older Bacula versions support
-only 260 character path/filenames.
-
-\section{Win32 Specific File daemon Command Line}
-\index[general]{Client!Win32 Specific File daemon Command Line Options}
-\index[general]{Win32 Specific File daemon Command Line Options}
-
-These options are not normally seen or used by the user, and are documented
-here only for information purposes. At the current time, to change the default
-options, you must either manually run {\bf Bacula} or you must manually edit
-the system registry and modify the appropriate entries.
-
-In order to avoid option clashes between the options necessary for {\bf
-Bacula} to run on Windows and the standard Bacula options, all Windows
-specific options are signaled with a forward slash character (/), while as
-usual, the standard Bacula options are signaled with a minus (-), or a minus
-minus (\verb:--:). All the standard Bacula options can be used on the Windows
-version. In addition, the following Windows only options are implemented:
-
-\begin{description}
-
-\item [/service ]
- \index[fd]{/service}
- Start Bacula as a service
-
-\item [/run ]
- \index[fd]{/run}
- Run the Bacula application
-
-\item [/install ]
- \index[fd]{/install}
- Install Bacula as a service in the system registry
-
-\item [/remove ]
- \index[fd]{/remove}
- Uninstall Bacula from the system registry
-
-\item [/about ]
- \index[fd]{/about}
- Show the Bacula about dialogue box
-
-\item [/status ]
- \index[fd]{/status}
- Show the Bacula status dialogue box
-
-\item [/events ]
- \index[fd]{/events}
- Show the Bacula events dialogue box (not yet implemented)
-
-\item [/kill ]
- \index[fd]{/kill}
- Stop any running {\bf Bacula}
-
-\item [/help ]
- \index[fd]{/help}
- Show the Bacula help dialogue box
-\end{description}
-
-It is important to note that under normal circumstances the user should never
-need to use these options as they are normally handled by the system
-automatically once Bacula is installed. However, you may note these options in
-some of the .bat files that have been created for your use.
-
-\section{Shutting down Windows Systems}
-\index[general]{Shutting down Windows Systems}
-\index[general]{Systems!Shutting down Windows}
-
-Some users like to shutdown their Windows machines after a backup using a
-Client Run After Job directive. If you want to do something similar, you might
-take the shutdown program from the
-\elink{apcupsd project}{\url{http://www.apcupsd.com}} or one from the
-\elink{Sysinternals project}
-{\url{http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897541.aspx}}.
-
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