On Mon, 10 May 2010 19:51:33 +0200, Kevin Keane <subscription AT kkeane DOT 
com>  
wrote:

> There is no such thing as "system state backup" any more in Windows  
> 2008. It's always the whole C: drive. I'm not sure how well bacula  
> handles it in the end. There also is the issue that Windows 2008 relies  
> heavily on junction points, which bacula doesn't handle well.

My experience so far mirrors yours but others are apparently disagreeing.  
I'm getting confused :)

wbadmin GUI has options for selecting 'system state' and unselecting drive  
letters, except it didn't work for me (canceled after it had started  
including 60000+ files). This seems to agree with you on including  
everything, but I don't understand the point of system state then, or of  
being able to unselect C:.

> I'm using Windows backup to an iSCSI drive, and then use bacula to back  
> up a snapshot of that iSCSI volume.

Is the result of that a monolothic blob like W2K3's ntbackup .bkf or  
single files? If it's a monolithic blob, Bacula can't do incrementals  
anymore. If it's single files, you would have to keep them around for  
incrementals and basically waste twice as much space everywhere, not to  
mention whatever problems junctions points becoming files presents.  
Whatever it may be, it just seems pointless.

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