Re: [Bacula-devel] Exchange plugin: will it work on 64-bitExchangeServer 2007?

[James H. <jam...@be...>]

> 
> On Feb 24, 2009, at 7:08 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday 24 February 2009 12:46:00 James Harper wrote:
> >>>
> >> My curiosity was about if the Microsoft provided exchange backup
dll
> >> could backup a 64 bit version of exchange from a 32 bit app. If it
> >> uses
> >> a non-direct-call interface to Exchange then it may just work.
> >
> > Yes, it may indeed work.  Most 32 bit applications work with the 64
> > bit OS,
> > but 64 bit VSS does not permit 32 bit applications to interface to
it.

> I presume that just installing the current beta and specifying the
> Exchange plugin for my datastore is all I need to do to get it to
> attempt a backup, and then a restore to the Restore Storage Group (or
> whatever it's actually called) is all I need to do to see if it
> actually worked?
> 

Yes. you need to specify the plugin directory in the config file too.

If the backup works (or even if it just doesn't fail spectacularly on
startup) then I think any further problems you have will not be related
to the 64 bit environment.

My expectation is that it will either 'just work', or the plugin will
fail to load. If it does fail to load, please let me know what error
messages you get so I can see if maybe I could give a more useful
message instead.

Thanks

James