> 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

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