Sebastian Lehmann wrote: > Am Di 04.11.2008 10:42 schrieb Silver Salonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> On Tuesday 04 November 2008 11:22:12 Sebastian Lehmann wrote: >> >>> Am Di 04.11.2008 05:10 schrieb Kevin Keane >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>>> - Native support for Windows system state backup without using >>>> NTBackup. >>>> Ideally including a full ASR. >>>> >>>> >>> It's is implemented since Bacula supports VSS. You can run a full >>> backup >>> and restore from scratch without NTBackup. >>> >> You mean with BartBE plugin? I wouldn't call it "implemented in >> Bacula". >> >> There's no other way besides NTBackup and this listed in >> http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=windows_bare_metal_recovery >> > > No, that is not what i mean. We do full system backups with VSS enabled > and restore the whole system from a linux rescue cd with a static bacula > client. In the rescue-environment we prepare the target disks (partions > and ntfs-format), then we restore the system (only partition c), make > the system bootable trough a original windows install cd and start the > restored maschine. Then we restore the rest of the system (any other > partition) with the original installed bacula-fd. > > That has worked fine at our tests. > > Ok, it is not truly implemented "in" bacula, but you will need a rescue > cd - in any case. > > Greetings > > Sebastian > Thank you for that information! Oddly enough, I had actually turned on VSS recently - and then forgot all about it. Worked very well according to the log file, although I haven't tested the disaster recovery.
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