Yes, that´s true. But it makes very complicate to maintain backups with Windows 2008 and Bacula. Wih windows 2003 a system state backup and a bacula backup a full restore was possible.
Foo, could you explain wich product is "ADS"?? is open source? On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Martin Simmons <mar...@lispworks.com>wrote: > >>>>> On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:15:28 +0200, Foo said: > > > > On Mon, 10 May 2010 19:51:33 +0200, Kevin Keane <subscript...@kkeane.com > > > > wrote: > > > > > There is no such thing as "system state backup" any more in Windows > > > 2008. It's always the whole C: drive. I'm not sure how well bacula > > > handles it in the end. There also is the issue that Windows 2008 relies > > > heavily on junction points, which bacula doesn't handle well. > > > > My experience so far mirrors yours but others are apparently disagreeing. > > I'm getting confused :) > > > > wbadmin GUI has options for selecting 'system state' and unselecting > drive > > letters, except it didn't work for me (canceled after it had started > > including 60000+ files). This seems to agree with you on including > > everything, but I don't understand the point of system state then, or of > > being able to unselect C:. > > > > > I'm using Windows backup to an iSCSI drive, and then use bacula to back > > > up a snapshot of that iSCSI volume. > > > > Is the result of that a monolothic blob like W2K3's ntbackup .bkf or > > single files? If it's a monolithic blob, Bacula can't do incrementals > > anymore. If it's single files, you would have to keep them around for > > incrementals and basically waste twice as much space everywhere, not to > > mention whatever problems junctions points becoming files presents. > > Whatever it may be, it just seems pointless. > > You might want to consider having two backups, for different purposes. Use > a > Windows full backup for disaster recovery and Full+Incremental Bacula > backups > for per-file recovery. > > __Martin > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >
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