Hi,
17.02.2010 22:29, Bob Hetzel wrote:
>> From: Arno Lehmann <al AT its-lehmann DOT de>
>> Subject: Re:
>> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
>> Message-ID: <4B7BC766.4040000 AT its-lehmann DOT de>
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>> 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.
...
> Are there any files which specifically should NOT be restored... perhaps I
> overwrote a boot file that was created by diskpart?
Well, my recent testing was done with the simplest possible fileset -
include c: and everything below it. No exceptions.
I don't care too much for the space wasted by backing up, for example,
pagefile.sys in my test scenario :-)
I'll re-test with a really blank (virtual) disk... done.
You're right. With a really blank disk you need to set up the master
boot record, which is is not done by diskpart or format.
Unfortunately, fixmbr is not part of a standard BartPE boot disk - I
actually don't know how I created the original partition table to be
bootable, but, thanks to Henrik, I can now point to
http://www.sysint.no/nedlasting/mbrfix.htm for a tool that does all
you need :-)
>>>> 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.
Don't hold your breath, but I should have something for the Wiki, for
Server 2003, in a few days. Server 2008 will follow.
Arno
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