First Windows 11 FD install - warnings and tray monitor issues

[Brock Palen]

I’m setting up my first Windows 11 bareos client,

FD works fine, I’m able to check on it’s status from the director, I can estimate jobs, I can run jobs.

Two issues when I do

status client=win11-fd

I get:

There are WARNINGS for this filedaemon's configuration!
See output of 'bareos-fd -t' for details.


I stop it and try running it manually using

bareos-fd.exe -c C:\ProgramData\Bareos -f -t

and it prints nothing, If I throw on debugging -d 10 I get debugging output but nothing that gives me an idea what’s wrong.

I did modify the Director configuration. Mostly adding an Address and Client Connect to Director (client is roaming)



Second issue is I can’t get the tray monitor to show up in the tray.

Interestingly task manager shows it running, no errors in event viewer and from the Director

status client=win11-fd

Shows

win11-client-mon (director) connected at: 22-Dec-24 23:49


So the FD shows it as connected, task manager shows it running, but nothing in the tray to actually monitor.

Thanks


Brock Palen
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[Bruno Friedmann (bruno-at-bareos)]

The warning is certainly due to now deprecated parameters.

to shut off the warning you can remove the following line in myself.conf bareos-fd client configuration

  Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20

About the system tray, while the app seems to be started it is not visible, you might have to change the settings from off 

to on, and you must logout login to see a change.

Hope this help.

[Brock Palen]

Yep Maximum Concurrent Jobs removed the warning message.

Nothing I appear to do makes the tray monitor actaully show up. Is this a known issue on Windows 11?
It’s not the end of the world as it’s almost never used, I just like having it there, it’s just odd that the FD shows the connection from the monitor but no actual monitor showing up.

I had restarted the service, restarted the monitor, several reboots, no change,

Brock Palen
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[Bruno Friedmann (bruno-at-bareos)]

Ok bareos tray-monitor is running shown in process list, but also didn't show any windows also on Windows 2022 server.

Could you open an issue please on github to not loose track of this.

[Brock Palen]

All set issues: 2092

Sorry don’t have a lot of details I had to return the laptop to my Dad to use.

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[Bruno Friedmann (bruno-at-bareos)]

Hi Brock, thanks for the report, as I was able to confirm the same misbehavior on Windows 2022 Server, we will at least keep track of it.

In the meantime, I wish you a happy new year.