Hi Gavin

How would you restore a VSS snapshot without having VSS ( in you linux live cd 
) ?
That's the real question.

So yes yours steps are naive (in my opinion). What is described in the wiki are 
the rights step.

Otherwise, if you don't change your hardware, and just want to arrange some 
partionning, with the help of having store place
somewhere ( network or usb ) you could do it directly offline with a live cd ( 
systemrescuecd ) and ntfsclone
save all your data, adjust partitionning , save the mbr ( but you don't need to 
change it )
and restore with ntfsclone.

You're done ... and yes no need of bacula ( but I would certainly have a full 
backup of the system )
don't forget to generate the system state snapshot like mentionned in wiki if 
you are not doing it already ...

Do a chkdsk /F and a reboot before cloning just to be sure ntfs are in good 
shape.


On 06/11/2010 03:57 PM, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we have a windows server 2003 server here and realised that its disk setup
> is in such a bad way that we want to reinstall it.  Never having done one,
> we thought it would be nice to try a bare metal restore of the machine from
> the backups (to spare disks).  Both c:\ and d:\ drives are entirely backed
> up by Bacula using VSS.
> 
> I was expecting to:
> 
> 1. Put a linux live cd in the server and boot it.
> 2. Partition the disk(s) appropriately.  Format them appropriately (NTFS).
> 3. Start a bacula-fd in linux.
> 4. Tell the bacula-dir to restore that server entirely through the running
>    bacula-fd (probably need to do c:\ and d:\ separately).
> 5. Restore the MBR somehow (windows recovery cd maybe?)
> 6. Cross my fingers and reboot.
> 
> However, when I looked at the wiki, I found this article which seems a
> little more complex.
> 
>   http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=windows_bare_metal_recovery:ntbackup
> 
> Are my steps [1-5] extremely naive?  Would that not work?  Do I have to go
> the way the wiki page says?  I thought I recalled someone suggesting that
> [1-6] should work.
> 
> Many thanks in advance for any info,
> 
> Gavin
> 
> PS MS SQL Server v5 is involved here.  Should having VSS mean that's okay
> to just restore directly?  We do have database backups if need be, but it
> would be nice if that wasn't needed.
> 
> 


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