Am Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:50:30 -0400 schrieb jdb: > I'm primarily a Linux user, and have been quite happy with Bacula on > Linux. I also have some Windows servers which I'm stuck managing as > well, and I have Bacula configured on those. One of those servers, a > Windows Server 2003 machine, recently managed to corrupt its SOFTWARE > registry to the point that it wouldn't boot. > > Is it possible to restore just the registry without restoring the entire > backup? I have the VSS enabled in the Bacula config, and the email log > from a recent backup makes it sound like the registry is being backed > up: > > 21-Apr 00:49 zzzzzz-fd JobId 37835: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): > "Registry Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE) > > If I could find a saved registry hive file from this backup, I'd be > happy - I used the recovery console to restore an earlier hive file, > which got the server back up, but that was a save point from a service > pack install and is not very recent. > > One problem may be that my default Windows exclude list which I picked > up somewhere includes this line: WildDir = > "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/system32/config" The registry hive files are stored in > this directory on disk, but I'm hoping the VSS snapshot saves them > elsewhere.
VSS does provide a consistent snapshot. IMHO the "VSS Writer" loglines just mean that the Service xyz was informed about a snapshot that will happen so that Service xyz can get into a consitent state on disk. this does not mean that anything is written an tape/volume. - Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
