> Good day, > > I have been using Bacula on a Linux server and Backup > Exec on a Windows small business server, both with good > results on their platform. > > Apparantly Bacula is working OK now on Windows through > the VSS service, that's what I read in the > Bacula documentation. > > Has anyone tried Bacula on a Windows SBS 2008 server > to backup files and Exchange databases and how were > the results?
VSS alone will take snapshot copies of the Exchange database. Restoring should just be a matter of copying the files back into place but please test. > Also, the standard NTBackup doesn't > support tape drives from Server 2008 on, but probably > Bacula still will? Any other pitfalls to expect? Around Bacula 3.x you could run the director and sd on windows, but they are no longer built. I never had much luck with sd though, it kept reporting write failures even though there is a retry-on-write-failure fix in there to work around some sort of bug in windows. I would advise not running the director or stored under windows. > > I'm really considering this now because Symantec refuse > to provide upgrade rates for our older Backup Exec... > We're in that position with a few clients too, but for various reasons Bacula isn't an option at this stage so we're stuck with either old versions or costly upgrades. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
