Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2007-01-18 Thread James Harper
> BTW: the machine that I have been testing on is a clone of our Domain > Controller / Exchange Server. With the exception of the minor glitches > mentioned above, after the restore the system came up just fine and > users were able to log in and get their at their email. I'm still not > an exper

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2007-01-18 Thread Steen Meyer
Onsdag 17 januar 2007 22:11 skrev Dwight Tovey: > I've still got a couple of minor issues with restoring a Windows system > while using a BartPE CD: > > * Specifying the target for the restore. The system currently has the > following partitions: >Part 1 - 100G Primary partition defined as C

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2007-01-18 Thread Dwight Tovey
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 11:34 +1100, James Harper wrote: > > I've still got a couple of minor issues with restoring a Windows > system > > while using a BartPE CD: > > > > * Specifying the target for the restore. The system currently has the > > following partitions: > >Part 1 - 100G Primary

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2007-01-17 Thread Erich Prinz
No, not kidding. I agree, it is difficult to tell most of the time in email. I've been using Backup Exec for years. Once Symantec bought out Veritas, things have gone decidedly south with the product. A crying shame. Same thing happened when they acquired Powerquest's product line of disc

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2007-01-17 Thread James Harper
> > It should do. Even Backup Exec will not restore the exchange and SQL > > databases (except I think the actual backup exec database itself) as > > part of the disaster recovery restore. You have to restore the disk > > volumes and system state and then boot up and restore the databases. > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2007-01-17 Thread Erich Prinz
On Jan 17, 2007, at 6:37 PM, James Harper wrote: >> The other option that came to mind would be to recover the C >> partition, boot the machine into Windows, finish creating the >> remaining partition(s) and restore the balance of the machine while >> in Windows. After all, we now have a nic

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2007-01-17 Thread James Harper
> The other option that came to mind would be to recover the C > partition, boot the machine into Windows, finish creating the > remaining partition(s) and restore the balance of the machine while > in Windows. After all, we now have a nice wintel version of bacula we > can use. If the machi

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2007-01-17 Thread James Harper
> I've still got a couple of minor issues with restoring a Windows system > while using a BartPE CD: > > * Specifying the target for the restore. The system currently has the > following partitions: >Part 1 - 100G Primary partition defined as C: >Part 2 - 400G Extended partition >Pa

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2007-01-17 Thread Erich Prinz
On Jan 17, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Dwight Tovey wrote: > I've still got a couple of minor issues with restoring a Windows > system > while using a BartPE CD: > > * Specifying the target for the restore. The system currently has the > following partitions: >Part 1 - 100G Primary partition defin

[Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2007-01-17 Thread Dwight Tovey
I've still got a couple of minor issues with restoring a Windows system while using a BartPE CD: * Specifying the target for the restore. The system currently has the following partitions: Part 1 - 100G Primary partition defined as C: Part 2 - 400G Extended partition Part 3 - 400G Logi

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2006-09-15 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 15 September 2006 23:20, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Dan Langille wrote: > > > Large volumes on *disk* slow down the restore if you're trying to get > > one file back. GREATLY. Try it. I suggest smaller volumes. e.g. > > 2GB. > > Yup, not only have I tried it, b

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2006-09-15 Thread Dan Langille
On 15 Sep 2006 at 16:20, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Dan Langille wrote: > > > Large volumes on *disk* slow down the restore if you're trying to get > > one file back. GREATLY. Try it. I suggest smaller volumes. e.g. > > 2GB. > > Yup, not only have I tried it, but it

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2006-09-15 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Dan Langille wrote: > Large volumes on *disk* slow down the restore if you're trying to get > one file back. GREATLY. Try it. I suggest smaller volumes. e.g. > 2GB. Yup, not only have I tried it, but it was question 1) in my original post. It doesn't make any sense, real

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2006-09-15 Thread Dan Langille
On 15 Sep 2006 at 22:22, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > On 9/15/2006 9:38 PM, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I am running bacula-dir version 1.38.11 (28 June 2006) on FreeBSD > > 6.1-RELEASE. I am fairly new to Bacula, and have just configured two Unix > > machines and one Windows XP

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2006-09-15 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 9/15/2006 9:38 PM, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: > Howdy, > > I am running bacula-dir version 1.38.11 (28 June 2006) on FreeBSD > 6.1-RELEASE. I am fairly new to Bacula, and have just configured two Unix > machines and one Windows XP machine with bacula-fd. Backups have been > running consiste

[Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2006-09-15 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Howdy, I am running bacula-dir version 1.38.11 (28 June 2006) on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. I am fairly new to Bacula, and have just configured two Unix machines and one Windows XP machine with bacula-fd. Backups have been running consistently for several weeks now without issue to a USB2.0 attached