Did you ever post the source to your exchange client? I'm very interested in
an exchange plugin for bacula, as I back up over 25 windows servers and I am
forced to use the windows backup agent to perform a backup of exchange.
Sincerely,
-Michael
On 10/11/07, James Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I wrote an agent for MSSQL which worked quite well, although it's in a
> non-working state at the moment as I started working on the Exchange
> agent which involved a rewrite of the base class. The Exchange agent has
> been running in production use for over a month now, so I think it's
> pretty stable (see archive for more details). I hope to get back to the
> SQL agent for bacula in the next few months, but work suddenly got
> really busy :)
>
> Basically it's a program that pretends to be a Bacula FD, and creates a
> filesystem namespace out of MSSQL elements, eg
> /<instance>/<database name>/database
> /<instance>/<database name>/logs
> ... filegroups
> ... files
>
> Once backed up, you could also just restore the backup using the normal
> bacula fd, which would give you a file you could then restore with
> MSSQL, eg "RESTORE DATABASE xyzzy FROM DISK='C:\tmp\whatever'".
>
> One of the things that has been added to Bacula since I first wrote the
> agent is much more flexible restore redirection, so I should now be able
> to get the 'restore to another database' option working in a sensible
> way. Not sure about 'point in time' restores though... not sure that
> Bacula has the flexibility to allow this... I think it would need some
> knowledge of MSSQL. Probably best just to restore everything to files
> and do it manually. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong though
> :)
>
> But for now, use VSS (which apparently has been documented to work), or
> do what everyone else does and just use MSSQL to back up to a file which
> in turn gets backed up by bacula.
>
> James
>
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