Hi
You right in saying that bacula can use VSS to do backups in Windows
systems, however It is my understanding that the VSS backup file is put
into a "volume" file which makes it not accesible to VSS tools. In a
windows system u can do straight VSS backup which can then be read by
VSS tools and chcked/restored, however this not practical when there are
many clients even with automation via powershell or other form of
scripting. having a backup system to easily check the state of backups
and keeping track of them is abetter solution, which is why i am
considering bacula
As I said i am new to bacula, so it maybe that it is possible to do
backups(VSS or otherwise) with bacula that does not use "Volume" files(I
am backing up to disk, not a a tape drive)
So I guess this is what my questions is, is it possible to get Bacula to
do backups with VSS(or even otherwise, simple file copying with or
without compression/encryption) without using "Volume" files, i.e the
backup files are saved as indiviual files and not all put together in a
"volume" file. The volume files seem to be there more for a tape based
system, the concept is not really neded if you are backing up to disk
Regards /Mehrdad
On 2024-04-24 09:23, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote:
Hello,
śr., 24 kwi 2024 o 08:44 Mehrdad Ravanbod
<mehrdad.ravan...@ampfield.se <mailto:mehrdad.ravan...@ampfield.se>>
napisał(a):
HI
Thanks for taking the time to answer, but that was actualy not the
question
I am aware that VSS is for copying files that maybe in Use in
windows env., As i said most of our backup is from machines which
are windows, both server and client
My question is if it possible to get bacula to not put a VSS
backup in a volume(which makes it impossible to restore if by VSS
tools if something happens to the bacula server),
You do not need any vss tools to make VSS backup with Bacula. Bacula
will handle all for you.
rather save it as it is, that is a sperate file, readable by teh
VSS system
What does it mean "save it as it is" - I'm not familiar with VSS
internal nor advanced usage.
What do you need to do?
Radek
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