Hi, 17.02.2010 22:29, Bob Hetzel wrote: >> From: Arno Lehmann <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: >> To: [email protected] >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >> Hi, >> >> 16.02.2010 16:48, Bob Hetzel wrote: >> >>>> Last year I tried some experimentation with bare-metal restore using >>>> bacula >>>> and bart-pe of a Windows boot volume and I never did get it to work >>>> properly. I believe there are least two pitfalls, probably more: >>>> >>>> 1) How to make it bootable? You can restore all the important files but >>>> getting it to boot is another matter. ... > Are there any files which specifically should NOT be restored... perhaps I > overwrote a boot file that was created by diskpart?
Well, my recent testing was done with the simplest possible fileset - include c: and everything below it. No exceptions. I don't care too much for the space wasted by backing up, for example, pagefile.sys in my test scenario :-) I'll re-test with a really blank (virtual) disk... done. You're right. With a really blank disk you need to set up the master boot record, which is is not done by diskpart or format. Unfortunately, fixmbr is not part of a standard BartPE boot disk - I actually don't know how I created the original partition table to be bootable, but, thanks to Henrik, I can now point to http://www.sysint.no/nedlasting/mbrfix.htm for a tool that does all you need :-) >>>> 2) I couldn't get far enough for this to be an issue but I believe >>>> bacula's >>>> handling of "Junction Points"--it gripes but doesn't back them up, will >>>> break many things too. Can anybody shed light on whether these will be >>>> auto-created by the OS if they're missing? >> No idea... yet. >> >>>> Has anybody actually documented fully the steps to get a Windows Server >>>> 2003 bare-metal bart-pe restore working like this? >> I'm working on it right now... > > I'm sure I'll not be the only one that will be very indebted to you on that. Don't hold your breath, but I should have something for the Wiki, for Server 2003, in a few days. Server 2008 will follow. Arno -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
