On Tuesday 24 February 2009 15:52:41 Adam Thornton wrote: > On Feb 24, 2009, at 7:08 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 February 2009 12:46:00 James Harper wrote: > >> My curiosity was about if the Microsoft provided exchange backup dll > >> could backup a 64 bit version of exchange from a 32 bit app. If it > >> uses > >> a non-direct-call interface to Exchange then it may just work. > > > > Yes, it may indeed work. Most 32 bit applications work with the 64 > > bit OS, > > but 64 bit VSS does not permit 32 bit applications to interface to it. > > I presume that just installing the current beta and specifying the > Exchange plugin for my datastore is all I need to do to get it to > attempt a backup, and then a restore to the Restore Storage Group (or > whatever it's actually called) is all I need to do to see if it > actually worked?
More or less -- the current beta is a 32 bit version so it will not use VSS on 64 bit Windows machines. The use of the Exchange plugin is documented in the New Features section of the manual. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
