On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 08:24:24AM +1100, James Harper wrote: > > The warning is this... > > Error: HrESEBackupSetup failed with error 0xc8000230 - Exchange > reports that > > no previous full backup has been done. > > > > But I wanted to continue doing incremental backups. > > Sorry, but you can't. Exchange is fairly picky about backups and will > get upset if it suspects things aren't quite right. > > Exchange differential and incremental backups are done by backing up > transaction log files only and not the database. For this to work, > Exchange has to be sure that the last full backup that you did + all the > log files you have backed up will actually give you a working database, > and in your case it won't so Exchange won't let you (not much point > forcing it if it won't work right?). The Exchange literature clearly > states that once you do any sort of restore, repair, hotfix, or service > pack that you should do a full backup asap. > > If it's any comfort (and it probably isn't :), Bacula isn't the only > backup tool that has given me grief with Exchange - I've recently spent > lots of time trying to persuade Backup Exec to play nicely. What it was > doing in the above situation is hang the entire Exchange database until > a bunch of services are restarted. Not sure if that problem is fixed > either. > > At some point I might look at having the plugin automatically upgrade > the backup level to Full if it gets such an error, but it could be a bit > tricky. It also probably shouldn't be the default action else it might > upset other users...
Thanks for that explanation. Perhaps this Exchange literature is what I really need. Can you point me towards where I can find it? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
