jascha Posted March 26, 2009 Report Share Posted March 26, 2009 Engine running on 10.5.6 server, console on 10.5.6 client. All clients using public key authentication. For client backup source, I selected "All Clients" Smart Tag, but the clients show up in the Sources window as "Unprotected". Are they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 26, 2009 Report Share Posted March 26, 2009 When you add a client to a script, it's status should change from unprotected to Ready. The icon will be grey until a backup. Then the icon turns green. Make sure the script has a valid destination and schedule. Then check the source list for the status of that client Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jascha Posted March 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2009 That happens when I explicitly select the client via its checkbox. However, what I was looking for was "Backup Clients Container" functionality, where I select the "All Clients" tag, and clients become part of the script without having to explicitly select them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 26, 2009 Report Share Posted March 26, 2009 You are correct that the Tag is used like the old Container. Feel free to post a screenshot of what you are seeing. It may help us tell you what is expected and not expected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jascha Posted March 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2009 I don't think I have permission to attach screen shots, I don't see a "Manage Files" link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 26, 2009 Report Share Posted March 26, 2009 The permissions are set right. If you don't see it when going to full reply mode, then logout and login again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jascha Posted March 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2009 Bingo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 26, 2009 Report Share Posted March 26, 2009 I am thinking you see this because the backup has not run yet. Have you had a backup using this script yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jascha Posted March 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2009 That's possible. The script did run, but it didn't complete (see tid/29953). The clients are also protected by a ProActive script that uses the smart tag (it hasn't been able to run yet either). I'm in the process of running a Backup Assistant script of my User Disk for my other issue. Since the smart tag is supposed to work like the old clients container, I'll consider my question answered in the affirmative (and let you know if it proves otherwise). Thanks, Jascha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jascha Posted March 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2009 Okay, the good news is that All Clients tag does find the clients. The bad news is that Retrospect won't back them up, says they are empty: + Normal backup using Clients Backup at 3/27/2009 2:57 PM (Execution unit 1) To Media Set FamilyJewels... 3/27/2009 2:58:00 PM: Connected to famousout-lm * Container famousout-lm was empty (had no volumes) Can't access backup client Macintosh-5, error -530 ( backup client not found)Macintosh-5, error -530 (%s)] It appears that the clients are protected now, just not their hard drives This is going from bad to worse... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jascha Posted March 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2009 Ah, okay. So All Clients tag selects the clients, but not their hard drive. To actually backup a client, you must select its hard drive from the sources window, even though the clients are configured to backup their start up volumes. Not sure what use the All Clients tag is... Anyway, I deselected the All Clients tag and selected each source's hard drive check box and am running a clients backup now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 27, 2009 Report Share Posted March 27, 2009 I used tags today and it worked perfect, but I didn't change the options for what disk to copy. I just used the default Option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jascha Posted March 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2009 Have you tried it when the clients are set to backup the Startup Volume? Once my clients backup completes, I'll try it w/ All Volumes selected (I don't like that setting, cause it picks up the odd mounted disk image, etc.). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jascha Posted April 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2009 Okay, I deselected all sources except the All Clients smart tag. If the clients are set to Backup Startup volume, the All Clients tag is useless: + Normal backup using Clients Backup at 4/10/2009 10:45 PM (Execution unit 1) To Media Set FamilyJewels... 4/10/2009 10:45:54 PM: Connected to famousout-lm * Container famousout-lm was empty (had no volumes) 4/10/2009 10:45:59 PM: Connected to phoenix * Container phoenix was empty (had no volumes) 4/10/2009 10:46:03 PM: Connected to slimjim * Container slimjim was empty (had no volumes) 4/10/2009 10:46:05 PM: Execution completed successfully The tag does work if the client is set to Backup All Volumes. This is certainly a regression from 6.1 client containers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 13, 2009 Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 This is logged as bug 21877 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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