Am Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:50:30 -0400 schrieb jdb:

> I'm primarily a Linux user, and have been quite happy with Bacula on
> Linux.  I also have some Windows servers which I'm stuck managing as
> well, and I have Bacula configured on those.  One of those servers, a
> Windows Server 2003 machine, recently managed to corrupt its SOFTWARE
> registry to the point that it wouldn't boot.
> 
> Is it possible to restore just the registry without restoring the entire
> backup?  I have the VSS enabled in the Bacula config, and the email log
> from a recent backup makes it sound like the registry is being backed
> up:
> 
> 21-Apr 00:49 zzzzzz-fd JobId 37835: VSS Writer (BackupComplete):
> "Registry Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
> 
> If I could find a saved registry hive file from this backup, I'd be
> happy - I used the recovery console to restore an earlier hive file,
> which got the server back up, but that was a save point from a service
> pack install and is not very recent.
> 
> One problem may be that my default Windows exclude list which I picked
> up somewhere includes this line:  WildDir =
> "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/system32/config" The registry hive files are stored in
> this directory on disk, but I'm hoping the VSS snapshot saves them
> elsewhere.

VSS does provide a consistent snapshot. IMHO the "VSS Writer" loglines 
just mean that the Service xyz was informed about a snapshot that will 
happen so that Service xyz can get into a consitent state on disk. 

this does not mean that anything is written an tape/volume.

- Thomas


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