It should work. But, since you are taking a snapshot of a live database,
you would basically have to do a crash-state recovery if you needed to
restore something. Also, this type of backup will only let you restore
the whole Exchange database, not individual Exchange mailboxes (you may
be able to get around that by restoring into a Recovery Storage group).
Similarly, you'd have a somewhat monolithic backup of each SQL Server
database.
If you need more control, you may want to look into a few alternative
options:
- I've heard that there is an Exchange plugin for bacula. Since I'm not
using Exchange, I don't know about it, though. I don't know about SQL
Server, though - if you REALLY want it, you might be able to commission
it from Bacula Systems. That's how the Exchange plugin came about.
- You could use ntbackup (or the new Server 2008 backup) to back up
Exchange to local files, and then use bacula to back up those backup
files. This is the same approach you have to take with the System State
anyway. Drawback: it takes space on your disks.
- You could use the Exchange Exmerge tool to export individual Exchange
mailboxes to .PST files, and then back those up. There are several very
nice aspects about that solution.
I don't know enough about SQL Server, but in the end it's probably
similar - either use whatever backup tool it has (ntbackup as well?), or
find a way to export databases to flat files.
Ricardo Duarte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently using Bacula to backup all of my Linux servers and
> services to LTO4 tapes, and I think it's an amazing product.
> Now I want to backup my Windows servers.
> The question I have is:
> - Can I trust bacula to perform backups of SQL Server and Exchange on
> a production environment, using the Windows VSS client?
>
> Thanks.
>
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