Re: [Bacula-users] bare metal windows server 2003 restore

2010-06-14 Thread Henrik Johansen
n't be lost before taking the final backup. We have written our own tool to do the MSSQL backup - currently we are backing up at least 100 MSSQL instances without any major pain. > Bob > >> From: Bruno Friedmann >> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bare metal windows ser

Re: [Bacula-users] bare metal windows server 2003 restore

2010-06-14 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Bob Hetzel wrote: > I've never been able to get the bare-metal restore to work doing a restore > starting from a Live CD. I last tried it over a year ago and people > responded a while later saying they got it to work that way and they would > update a web page with s

Re: [Bacula-users] bare metal windows server 2003 restore

2010-06-14 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, James Harper wrote: > You really need a windows live CD (eg bartpe) or else you won't get all > your NTFS ACL's and other stuff restored properly. Also, certain > versions of mkntfs are broken wrt making a partition bootable. That's a real shame. Knoppix et al are so mu

Re: [Bacula-users] bare metal windows server 2003 restore

2010-06-14 Thread Bob Hetzel
g to wipe the drive after the backup you really want to eliminate all writes that can't be lost before taking the final backup. Bob > From: Bruno Friedmann > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bare metal windows server 2003 restore > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Messag

Re: [Bacula-users] bare metal windows server 2003 restore

2010-06-14 Thread Alan Brown
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, James Harper wrote: > You really need a windows live CD (eg bartpe) or else you won't get all > your NTFS ACL's and other stuff restored properly. Reminder to all: NTFS ACL and other filesystem semantics (but not structure) are based on VMS, not Unix. This is a direct result

Re: [Bacula-users] bare metal windows server 2003 restore

2010-06-11 Thread James Harper
> Hi, > > we have a windows server 2003 server here and realised that its disk setup > is in such a bad way that we want to reinstall it. Never having done one, > we thought it would be nice to try a bare metal restore of the machine from > the backups (to spare disks). Both c:\ and d:\ drives a

Re: [Bacula-users] bare metal windows server 2003 restore

2010-06-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>How would you restore a VSS snapshot without having VSS ( in you linux live cd >) ? >That's the real question. > >So yes yours steps are naive (in my opinion). What is described in the wiki >are the rights step. Since when do you need vss *after* the backup was created using vss? Vss simply al

Re: [Bacula-users] bare metal windows server 2003 restore

2010-06-11 Thread Bruno Friedmann
Hi Gavin How would you restore a VSS snapshot without having VSS ( in you linux live cd ) ? That's the real question. So yes yours steps are naive (in my opinion). What is described in the wiki are the rights step. Otherwise, if you don't change your hardware, and just want to arrange some pa

[Bacula-users] bare metal windows server 2003 restore

2010-06-11 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, we have a windows server 2003 server here and realised that its disk setup is in such a bad way that we want to reinstall it. Never having done one, we thought it would be nice to try a bare metal restore of the machine from the backups (to spare disks). Both c:\ and d:\ drives are entirely