Hello, Since the subject of disaster recovery on WinNT/Win2K is currently being discussed on this list, I thought that this might interest some of you if you also have WinXP systems.
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [Bacula-devel] Vss/BartPE disaster recovery success story Date: Tuesday 09 August 2005 16:33 From: "Thorsten Engel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear all, This time I have no problem but I want to share some good news: Scenario a): 1. I took a vss bacula backup of c:/ from a vmware WinXP Prof. 2. I started BartPe & bacula 3. I restored (with overwriting all files on c:/) 4. Windows XP worked and only complained about a corrupt recycle bin which successfully was repaired automatically. Scenario b) 1. (same backup than in scenario a) 2. I started BartPe & bacula 3. I deleted all files on c:/ 4. I restored c:/ 5. Windows XP worked and only complained about a corrupt recycle bin which successfully was repaired automatically. Lust but not least, scenario c) 1. (same backup than in scenario a) 2. I made an ASR ntbackup and created a floppy for restoration of partitions, etc. 3. I created a brand new VmWare with a hardisk of equal size 4. I did a F2-ASR restore from Disk which restored the partitions 5. After a restart the system continued to restore a "simple" winxp, but this failed as a file on my CDROM was missing (probably I used another CDROM for the original setup). 6. I started BartPe & bacula 7. I restored c:/ 5. Windows XP worked and only complained about a corrupt recycle bin which successfully was repaired automatically. Strike! Thanks to Bacula! Thorsten Engel P.s. playing with this, i encountered 2 "nice to haves" - a better "start & go" for bartpe (I had to manually create subdirs and do copying to get bacula-fd running on bartpe). I'll probably be able to contribute this in the near future - kern will hate me for this: storing "file deltas" when doing incremental backups. When using vmware, you always get very large files. The "base backup" project will not address this, if I understood it correctly. I could think of an additional table in the database which holds CRCs every 10,50,100,1000 MBs of a file, so that one can discover where a file differs which not too much load on the database. This would help as well if one wants to store partitions instead of files. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel ------------------------------------------------------- -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
