> Bacula isn't really about bare-metal recovery, especially when it comes > to Windows. Using just Bacula, the answer for Windows is to install the > system from scratch on the new hardware, install the Bacula client, then > do a restore. I'm not even sure how simple restore will work with > locked files, such as with the system and user registries. > > What I do is to use a separate Windows backup package to create a > bare-metal recovery image (Acronis, Ghost, whatever), then back that > image up using Bacula. You need an external drive and a system to > restore the image into that drive. Then you use the boot CD of the > Windows backup software to restore as if Bacula weren't in the picture. >
If the machines are windows 7, I would create a system image with the builtin backup software. You can save these images on the network and use bacula to make a backup of these. Only problem is this makes a snapshot of the entire C: (or system drive) so I now try to partition so that C: is 100 to 200 GB and separate OS from data. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
