Yes that´s true. For that reason, i think, It is very interesting that people share their experience about Windows 2008. I have mixed systems, linux centos, RedHat, Debian, windows 2000, Windows 2003 and now , of course, windows 2008. I think that this is the situation of many people and is very interesting to define best practices about bacula and Windows 2008. I don´t want to deal with different backup systems for each OS. This is my behavior on Windows 2008 with bacula:
1. On monthly basis (or when i have enough time :-P): Windows backup to external storage (Full backup, all drives). 2. On weekly basis: System state backup using wbadmin to local server disks 3. Daily: Using bacula, Monday to Saturday incremental, Sunday differential. First Sunday each two months, full backup. This is my configuration for non "file-role" server. I hope that this is enough in case a disaster recovery. If someone knows how to eliminate "external" steps (regarding Windows and wbadmin backups), or add something else, please share here!! On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Gavin McCullagh <gavin.mccull...@gcd.ie>wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 12 May 2010, Kevin Keane wrote: > > > Because Windows Backup goes down to the sector or block level, it can > > back up basically anything that is on your hard disk - Exchange, SQL > > Server, virtual machines, registries, active directory, junction points, > > case-sensitive files, files with multiple data streams, and all those > > other pesky things that needed special handling in NTBackup. It can also > > back up only a few changed blocks from right in the middle of a large > > file. > > So I guess the question in my mind is, how does this differ from Bacula, > supposing you back up C:\, D:\, etc. using VSS? > > - It apparently can back up a "patch" to a changed file which Bacula > doesn't currently. > > - It sounds like the restore method is more streamlined. In Bacula (I > believe) you need to manually set up disk partitions, format NTFS and > set up a bacula-fd, then restore onto the fresh NTFS partitions and > update the MBR. This is tedious and a bit complex. > > Is there something that Bacula can't do here? Is the Bacula way likely to > go wrong in some way? > > I'd just prefer not to have to deal with multiple different backup methods. > One of the great joys of Bacula is that we now have a single backup system > which we can teach any sysadmin to use and he knows how to restore files, > regardless of the platform. > > Gavin > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >
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