> Hi, > > we have a windows server 2003 server here and realised that its disk setup > is in such a bad way that we want to reinstall it. Never having done one, > we thought it would be nice to try a bare metal restore of the machine from > the backups (to spare disks). Both c:\ and d:\ drives are entirely backed > up by Bacula using VSS. > > I was expecting to: > > 1. Put a linux live cd in the server and boot it. > 2. Partition the disk(s) appropriately. Format them appropriately (NTFS). > 3. Start a bacula-fd in linux. > 4. Tell the bacula-dir to restore that server entirely through the running > bacula-fd (probably need to do c:\ and d:\ separately). > 5. Restore the MBR somehow (windows recovery cd maybe?) > 6. Cross my fingers and reboot. >
You really need a windows live CD (eg bartpe) or else you won't get all your NTFS ACL's and other stuff restored properly. Also, certain versions of mkntfs are broken wrt making a partition bootable. I did experiment with patching bacula to extract the ACL/ADS/etc streams from the NTFS backup and apply them using ntfs3g IOCTL's. It worked okay except for directories (an artefact of the way bacula extracts the file data from NTFS streams) but there weren't enough registry tools available under Linux to make it worthwhile. I've done the bartpe restore with XP and the same thing should apply to 2003. You are effectively restoring a snapshot of the machine at exactly the time it was backed up. You can add bacula to bartpe directly or just put the required files on a USB stick or something. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
