> From: Arno Lehmann <a...@its-lehmann.de> > Subject: Re: > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <4b7bc766.4040...@its-lehmann.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi, > > 16.02.2010 16:48, Bob Hetzel wrote: > >> > Last year I tried some experimentation with bare-metal restore using >> > bacula >> > and bart-pe of a Windows boot volume and I never did get it to work >> > properly. I believe there are least two pitfalls, probably more: >> > >> > 1) How to make it bootable? You can restore all the important files but >> > getting it to boot is another matter. > > This is about Windows 2k3 - > using diskpart I never had a problem getting the system bootable. > The simple case - one partition only - is rather straightforward: > run diskpart on the recovery system, select the (only) disk to work > with, "clean", "create partition primary", "active", "assign letter=c". > Quit diskpart. Format the disk with NTFS. > Restore > Reboot > handle all the other things to be considered - typically, boot into > Directory Service Restore Mode or what that's called, apply the system > state backup you hopefully have. > You might need more reboots and more steps in between, depending on > the applications you need to handle. I don't know about IIS, but SQL > server, for example, typically also needs manual restores of data > backups and log replays.
Are there any files which specifically should NOT be restored... perhaps I overwrote a boot file that was created by diskpart? > >> > 2) I couldn't get far enough for this to be an issue but I believe >> > bacula's >> > handling of "Junction Points"--it gripes but doesn't back them up, will >> > break many things too. Can anybody shed light on whether these will be >> > auto-created by the OS if they're missing? > > No idea... yet. > >> > Has anybody actually documented fully the steps to get a Windows Server >> > 2003 bare-metal bart-pe restore working like this? > > I'm working on it right now... I'm sure I'll not be the only one that will be very indebted to you on that. > >> > Regarding the IIS metabase, if you go into the IIS Manager app, then right >> > click on Properties for the local computer, then tick the setting to >> > "Enable Direct Metabase Edit" you should be able to just back up the >> > metabase folder as regular files. If you stop IIS then restore the files >> > MBSchema.xml and MetaBase.xml as regular files you should be back to where >> > you were with the IIS config at least. All the web content, and CGI >> > applications, and dll's is another matter, of course. > > The latter would - hopefully - be handled by the normal backup and > system state backup. The Metabase... well, I don't even know what > that's good for, but seeing that you can force that to exist as > regular files is already good! > The Metabase is windows speak for the IIS config. Sadly, I believe that's not included by default as part of the system state. Ditto with the keys needed for it. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269586 > Cheers, > > Arno > > -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabr?ck > www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users