I am also using W2K8 and back up with Windows Backup to an iSCSI server. There really is no good way around Windows backup (unless you want a paid solution). W2K8 relies heavily on junction points, which bacula doesn't back up. BTW, if you are using Exchange 2007, be sure to install SP2 - before that service pack, Windows backup wasn't Exchange-aware.
What I actually do is use Windows Backup to the iSCSI server, and then take a snapshot of the iSCSI disk. I back up that snapshot using bacula. I don't think of it as duplication but of exporting the data in a backup-friendly format. It's really not much different from, in W2K3, using NTBackup for the systemstate, and then using bacula to backup the .bkf file. Or creating a MySQL database dump and then backing up that dump. Or creating SQL Server backup .bak file and backing that up. The one thing to be careful of is how to handle VSS. You don't want to have Windows Backup and a direct Bacula backup both truncating log files, for instance. > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig Ringer [mailto:cr...@postnewspapers.com.au] > Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 11:12 PM > To: bacula-users > Subject: [Bacula-users] iSCSI and Windows Server Backup > > Hi folks > > I've recently been saddled with a win2k8 server, and am trying to > figure > out how to make it play with my backup infrastructure. > > Currently I've got it doing scheduled backups via Windows Server Backup > to an iSCSI volume exported by my backup server. In case the setup is > of > interest to anyone it's written up here: > > > http://soapyfrogs.blogspot.com/2010/05/using-iet-iscsi-enterprise- > target-for.html > > However ... I'd really like a way to integrate this into Bacula, > though, > at least in terms of monitoring and alerts. I'm backing up user-visible > shares on the server with Bacula separately to the Windows image > backups, but would prefer to avoid the duplication. As there must be > people with 2k8 servers here, I thought I'd check in and see how others > are doing it. > > Ideas? Suggestions? > > -- > Craig Ringer > > Tech-related writing: http://soapyfrogs.blogspot.com/ > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
