Dear bacula users,

we use bacula for some years now, excellent tool! But there is one open 
question I was not able to answer 'til today:

Doing windows (XP)-client backups I need the possibility to do a disaster 
recovery. My solution (tested successfully) is
1.) Do "ntbackup backup systemstate /F c:\systemstate.bkf" using 
ClientRunBeforeJob
2.) Do a bacula backup using VSS including c:\systemstate.bkf

Disaster recovery then is
1.) Install a minimal windows client
2.) restore c: using bacula (includes systemstate.bkf)
3.) restore systemstate using ntbackup on the client
4.) reboot

This works but has two ceveats: ntbackup runs several minutes even on an unused 
system and the resulting backup is severeal gb every day.

So I wonder if VSS won't fit my needs _without_ doing a ntbackup systemstate 
with clientRunBeforeJob? Will a VSS backup of partition C: save all system 
relevant information (registry etc.) for disaster recovery?

--
Kind regards
Christoph
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Christoph Litauer
Uni Koblenz, Computing Centre, Office A 022    
Postfach 201602, 56016 Koblenz     
Fon: +49 261 287-1311, Fax: -100 1311





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