I've been using Bacula on a Windows 2008 server for a while now. A couple things:
- Forget tape drives. With SBS Server, use USB hard disks for backup. Use 2008's native backup (Not NTBackup any more - the new one is MUCH improved once you get over the completely new concepts). - Forget BackupExec. There really never was much justification for it in most businesses. SBS' own built-in utilities are very good for 90% of small businesses and much easier to manage. BackupExec and Bacula excel in larger installations. - Make sure you apply Exchange 2007 SP2. This is true even with Windows' own backup. Before that service pack, Exchange was not backup aware! I think some backup vendors provided their own VSS providers for Exchange. - Junction points generate warning messages. You will get lots of them. Some other people have reported that Bacula handles them just fine, and you can restore it without a problem. - Bacula for Windows does not support IPv6 and, worse, has an ugly failure mode (you have to create a separate A record in DNS without a corresponding AAAA record for the server to make it work). Windows 2008 heavily uses IPv6, so turning it off is really not an option. - Only bacula-fd exists supported on Windows. Bacula-dir and bacula-sd are unsupported. What I do is use Windows' own backup to create a full server backup to another hard disk. I then back up this hard disk using bacula. In my case, that is very easy because the backup disk is an iSCSI drive. -----Original Message----- From: jmaillists [mailto:jmailli...@promani.be] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 5:12 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] Bacula on Windows SBS 2008 Good day, I have been using Bacula on a Linux server and Backup Exec on a Windows small business server, both with good results on their platform. Apparantly Bacula is working OK now on Windows through the VSS service, that's what I read in the Bacula documentation. Has anyone tried Bacula on a Windows SBS 2008 server to backup files and Exchange databases and how were the results? Also, the standard NTBackup doesn't support tape drives from Server 2008 on, but probably Bacula still will? Any other pitfalls to expect? I'm really considering this now because Symantec refuse to provide upgrade rates for our older Backup Exec... Hope to hear some opinions from you all, thanks Joris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
