I've been using Bacula on a Windows 2008 server for a while now. A couple
things:
- Forget tape drives. With SBS Server, use USB hard disks for backup. Use
2008's native backup (Not NTBackup any more - the new one is MUCH improved once
you get over the completely new concepts).
- Forget BackupExec. There really never was much justification for it in most
businesses. SBS' own built-in utilities are very good for 90% of small
businesses and much easier to manage. BackupExec and Bacula excel in larger
installations.
- Make sure you apply Exchange 2007 SP2. This is true even with Windows' own
backup. Before that service pack, Exchange was not backup aware! I think some
backup vendors provided their own VSS providers for Exchange.
- Junction points generate warning messages. You will get lots of them. Some
other people have reported that Bacula handles them just fine, and you can
restore it without a problem.
- Bacula for Windows does not support IPv6 and, worse, has an ugly failure mode
(you have to create a separate A record in DNS without a corresponding AAAA
record for the server to make it work). Windows 2008 heavily uses IPv6, so
turning it off is really not an option.
- Only bacula-fd exists supported on Windows. Bacula-dir and bacula-sd are
unsupported.
What I do is use Windows' own backup to create a full server backup to another
hard disk. I then back up this hard disk using bacula. In my case, that is very
easy because the backup disk is an iSCSI drive.
-----Original Message-----
From: jmaillists [mailto:jmaillists AT promani DOT be]
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 5:12 PM
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: [Bacula-users] Bacula on Windows SBS 2008
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? Also, the standard NTBackup
doesn't support tape drives from Server 2008 on, but probably Bacula still
will? Any other pitfalls to expect?
I'm really considering this now because Symantec refuse to provide upgrade
rates for our older Backup Exec...
Hope to hear some opinions from you all,
thanks
Joris
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