Sebastian Lehmann wrote:
> Am Di 04.11.2008 10:42 schrieb Silver Salonen <silver AT ultrasoft DOT ee>:
>
>   
>> On Tuesday 04 November 2008 11:22:12 Sebastian Lehmann wrote:
>>     
>>> Am Di 04.11.2008 05:10 schrieb Kevin Keane
>>> <subscription AT kkeane DOT com>:
>>>       
>>>> - Native support for Windows system state backup without using
>>>> NTBackup.
>>>> Ideally including a full ASR.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> It's is implemented since Bacula supports VSS. You can run a full
>>> backup
>>> and restore from scratch without NTBackup.
>>>       
>> You mean with BartBE plugin? I wouldn't call it "implemented in
>> Bacula".
>>
>> There's no other way besides NTBackup and this listed in 
>> http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=windows_bare_metal_recovery
>>     
>
> No, that is not what i mean. We do full system backups with VSS enabled
> and restore the whole system from a linux rescue cd with a static bacula
> client. In the rescue-environment we prepare the target disks (partions
> and ntfs-format), then we restore the system (only partition c), make
> the system bootable trough a original windows install cd and start the
> restored maschine. Then we restore the rest of the system (any other
> partition) with the original installed bacula-fd.
>
> That has worked fine at our tests.
>
> Ok, it is not truly implemented "in" bacula, but you will need a rescue
> cd - in any case.
>
> Greetings
>
> Sebastian
>   
Thank you for that information! Oddly enough, I had actually turned on 
VSS recently - and then forgot all about it. Worked very well according 
to the log file, although I haven't tested the disaster recovery.

Kevin


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