Hi, 15.02.2010 13:47, Chris Knipe wrote: > Hi All, > > I am successfully backing up a rather large deployment of Linux as well > as Windows (2003 / 2008) systems. All the Windows machines are being > backed up using VSS, and everything is running good.
Good start :-) > From what I can see under the backups, VSS is successfully being used, > backing up files (open or closed), MSDE, IIS, and various other things - > just like I would like to expect. Please correct me if this is > incorrect and I am missing the point... > > <SNIP > 15-Feb 14:46 win24-fd JobId 60: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "System > Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE) > 15-Feb 14:45 wa-cpt-bacula01-sd JobId 60: Job write elapsed time = > 00:04:28, Transfer rate = 2.123 K bytes/second > 15-Feb 14:46 win24-fd JobId 60: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "Registry > Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE) > 15-Feb 14:46 win24-fd JobId 60: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "Event Log > Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE) > 15-Feb 14:46 win24-fd JobId 60: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): > "MSDEWriter", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE) > 15-Feb 14:46 win24-fd JobId 60: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "COM+ REGDB > Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE) > 15-Feb 14:46 win24-fd JobId 60: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "BITS > Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE) > 15-Feb 14:46 win24-fd JobId 60: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "WMI > Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE) > 15-Feb 14:46 win24-fd JobId 60: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "IIS > Metabase Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE) That, indeed, looks good. ... > What I would like to know however, is how to restore these VSS > snapshots? For example, how can I instruct bacula to restore IIS and > MSDE, or only the Event Log which was backed up through VSS, but not > restore any physical files and/or the entire system? The key thing is to know which files to restore... which I don't in detail, not really being a windows person. However, I'm pretty sure that, at least for desaster recovery purposes, backing up NOT to a running windows instance, you should have everything you need. For such a full backup, you need some secondary windows installation for the resore itself - for Server 2003 and XP, BartPE is a convenient way to get such a thing. For newer Windows versions, you probably best use Microsoft's PE system (I haven't actually built such a beast yet). > Am I understanding this correct, doing something incorrectly, missing > out somewhere? I would expect problems when, for whatever reasons, you need to restore for example IIS (meta)data only, as I'm pretty sure that doing this in a running windows will not result in a merge of the data in the live system and the restored data, but only in an error (more likely) or loss of the current data by overwriting with backed up files (less likely). The good thing is, however, that all those data sets - as far as I can tell - are most relevant in disaster recovery situations, and Microsoft itself has ways to store data from the affected systems for later review, where applicable (event log and WMI data, for example). My approach here is simply to not care for those data sets for single-file restores, as I would need to dig too deeply into where Windows keeps which data, and what you need to get a consistent restore. Instead, I consider all those VSS generated subsystem data sets just the base for an eventual bare-metal restore of the whole system. > Thank you kindly for your time and responces. I just hope my comments are useful for you :-) Cheers, Arno > > > -- > > Regards, > Chris Knipe > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, > Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW > http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
