Hello Kern, Just to add, Bacula Systems added several improvements to its BMR technology in the last years. I'm almost sure restoring from and to UEFI machines is supported; also P2V, V2P.
Regards, -- MSc Heitor Faria CEO Bacula LatAm mobile1: + 1 909 655-8971 mobile2: + 55 61 98268-4220 América Latina [ http://bacula.lat/] -------- Original Message -------- From: Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2019 06:41 AM To: Pierre Bernhardt <pie...@starcumulus.owl.de>,bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Question about bacula >Hello, > >Some time ago, the project provided bare metal recovery, but the boot >process has evolved significantly since then with many differences >between vendor, which made maintenance of the BMR too onerous. However, >Bacula Systems as a part of their commercial offering does offer >selected Linux distro as well as Window complete BMR capabilities. > >One reasonable alternative is to ensure you have complete backups of the >whole system, then in a disaster situation, reinstall the original OS >followed by doing a full Bacula restore. For those of you who use the >Bacula recommended install options (most files going in /opt/bacula) >restoring a fully functional Bacula is easy, and then once done, >restoring the whole OS as of the last backup is not hard. This >procedure works fine (I have done it on several of my computers) however >it may be slightly more time consuming than using the Bacula Systems BMR. > >Best regards, >Kern > >On 12/13/19 9:46 AM, Pierre Bernhardt wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I think what you mean is a bare metal recovery procedure. >> This is generally possible but needs some special preparations and >> instructions. >> It is not a full out of the box recovery procedure. >> >> It depends on how secure you backup you servers. >> >> I've already written a complex base article but I think >> this is not the time to publish them here. I don't make >> people to read boring and unfinished alpharelease stuff :-) >> >> Cheers, >> Pierre >> >> Am 12.12.19 um 16:49 schrieb Gregor Burck: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've already a running system with bacula 9.4.4 and baculum. >>> My main question is, could I make a desaster recovery of my Windows and >>> Linux Server? >>> >>> It seem to me, sat bacula only made File Backup? >>> >>> I suggest more than a veeam thing, but then I've to use Bacula Enterprise, >>> that support things like hyper visor, SQL and Exchange and other features? >>> >>> In the moment I've a proxmox cluster and use a mix from Backupassist and >>> the proxmox own backup, I want to replace this solution thru an centrelized >>> Backupserver. >>> >>> Bye >>> >>> Gregor >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >Bacula-users mailing list >Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
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