Troubleshooting Backups in Windows BMR

Bacula Enterprise Only

This solution is only available for Bacula Enterprise. For subscription inquiries, please reach out to sales@baculasystems.com.

Before starting any BMR test, you must be able to back up files on your source host with Bacula Enterprise. Then you must be sure that the WindowsBMR plugin is correctly installed and working. Use the command “status” in bconsole to check the status of your source client:

*status client=zwin2012b-fd
Connecting to Client zwin2012b-fd at zwin2012b:9102

win2012b-fd Version: 6.2.4 (04 May 2013) VSS Linux Cross-compile Win64

Daemon started 18-May-13 12:15. Jobs: run=2 running=0.
Microsoft (build 9200), 64-bit
Heap: heap=0 smbytes=132,812 max_bytes=394,019 bufs=110 max_bufs=228
Sizes: boffset_t=8 size_t=8 debug=0 trace=1 mode=0,2010 bwlimit=0kB/s
Plugin: alldrives-fd.dll winbmr-fd.dll

The “Plugin” line shows that the winbmr-fd.dll is installed.

You can get more debugging information from the “trace” file in C:\Program Files\Bacula\working, if you enable debug tracing from the console with:

*setdebug level=20 trace=1 client=zwin2012b-fd
Connecting to Client zwin2012b-fd at zwin2012b:9102
2000 OK setdebug=20 trace=1 hangup=0