Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 1.37.25 and Volume Shadow Copy Service?
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 17:39, Jonte Norman wrote: I am still a bit confused about how to get this to work though... Are VSS enabled in the Winbacula-1.37.22 version of the client, or do I have to build one from CVS? I have added Enable VSS = Yes in the FileSet resource in bacula-dir.conf but Bacula does not seem to use VSS... VSS is not yet enabled in the FD. Please refer to my status report sent last Friday (if I remember right). Ok! Thanks for the info... Are you planning to release any more betas of Winbacula (wich includes VSS) before the release of Bacula 1.38? There will one more beta release of Bacula (winbacula too) without VSS. I will explain why and propose a solution (that I hope will please everyone including Thorsten) in a email I hope to write tonight or tomorrow. -- Best regards, Kern ( /\ V_V --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 1.37.25 and Volume Shadow Copy Service?
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 00:52, Jonte Norman wrote: On 7/11/05, Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 11 July 2005 13:32, Russell Howe wrote: Jonte Norman wrote: Hi Bacula-users, And what if I only have enabled VSS on one of the partitions (the one holding the MSSQL or Exchange DB files) on my Windows machine, what happens then? Also, does anyone know if he has implemented VSS restore yet? As I understand this is a must have if one are going to do a proper restore of an MS Exchange database... I'm not sure this would work for things like Exchange. You would need to tell it to do something like this: * Flush changes to its database files * Back up those files, without them changing in the process * Tell Exchange that it's free to write to the files again This is exactly what VSS does, but the technical details are considerably more complicated. It is all documented on Microsoft's web site. Yes according to Microsoft one should be able to backup both Exchange 2003 and MSSQL 2000 databases with VSS, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=822896product=exch2003 I am still a bit confused about how to get this to work though... Are VSS enabled in the Winbacula-1.37.22 version of the client, or do I have to build one from CVS? I have added Enable VSS = Yes in the FileSet resource in bacula-dir.conf but Bacula does not seem to use VSS... VSS is not yet enabled in the FD. Please refer to my status report sent last Friday (if I remember right). -- Best regards, Kern ( /\ V_V --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 1.37.25 and Volume Shadow Copy Service?
I am still a bit confused about how to get this to work though... Are VSS enabled in the Winbacula-1.37.22 version of the client, or do I have to build one from CVS? I have added Enable VSS = Yes in the FileSet resource in bacula-dir.conf but Bacula does not seem to use VSS... VSS is not yet enabled in the FD. Please refer to my status report sent last Friday (if I remember right). Ok! Thanks for the info... Are you planning to release any more betas of Winbacula (wich includes VSS) before the release of Bacula 1.38? Best regards, Jonte Norman --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 1.37.25 and Volume Shadow Copy Service?
Jonte Norman wrote: Hi Bacula-users, And what if I only have enabled VSS on one of the partitions (the one holding the MSSQL or Exchange DB files) on my Windows machine, what happens then? Also, does anyone know if he has implemented VSS restore yet? As I understand this is a must have if one are going to do a proper restore of an MS Exchange database... I'm not sure this would work for things like Exchange. You would need to tell it to do something like this: * Flush changes to its database files * Back up those files, without them changing in the process * Tell Exchange that it's free to write to the files again Anything else, and you will end up with an inconsistent Exchange database (even if VSS does something like 'snapshotting', unless all writes by Exchange to its database are transactional you will still end up with an unclean database backup and you'll have to become more familiar with eseutil than you would ever wish). Your best bet here is to use ntbackup to dump the Exchange database to a file and back that up, much like the system state backup described in the manual. You will of course need the space for this dump, but disk space is cheap. There's not usually any need to have RAID for scratch disks like this, etc. The same principle applies to MS SQL Server. It would be like backing up a live filesystem in Linux by dumping the block device directly. It will probably work, but you will have to fsck it, and there is *NO* guarantee that you won't lose data (in fact, it's very likely that you will). -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
