Re: [Bacula-devel] Several technical windows/VSS questions

[Kern S. <ke...@si...>]

Hello,

These are support questions, so I am forwarding this to the bacula-users list 
for their possible response.

On Monday 07 May 2007 15:35, W. Voos wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am currently implementing backups across several linux/windows systems
> and in that context, several questions came up that I could not find
> answers to in the documentation or the lists. Perhaps somebody can enlight
> me here, before I have to dig into the Source ...
> 
> 1) Does the "onefs" FileSet-Option work for Windows? It seems to me like
> not, as I tried to backup
> c:\someDir
> c:\someMountedVolume
> via Include c:/ and onefs = yes ... ut it tried to backup
> c:\someMountedVolume nevertheless. OTOH I've just read in another mail
> that the order of options in several option-blocks is important, so I'll
> check that, too.
> 
> 2) Does the VSS-Snapshot provide the Full/Differential/Incremental options
> to the different VSS-Writers on the system? I would guess so, but couldn't
> confirm for sure ...
> 
> 3) Does the VSS-Snapshot honour excludes? I.e. if I have a directory
> c:\someDB and exclude it from the FileSet, will it also be excluded from
> the Snapshot? Because otherwise, the writer for the db would get "Start
> Backup, Backup Finished" messages and truncate the logfile - even if I did
> NOT backup the directory. If it honours excludes - only those in Exclude{}
> or also those specified via Options { Exclude = yes }?
> 
> 4) Can restores also be done via the VSS-Restore mechanism?
> 
> 5) Last but not least - (rather: most important): Is there a possibility
> to run some custom scripts after creation of the snapshot and before the
> backup and/or after the backup and before the release of the snapshot?
> The reason for that is that MS requires some checks on Exchange-DBs be run
> before you signal "Backup successful". As I guess that not only Exchange
> needs that, some generic mechanism would be very well suited ...
> 
> Thanks for any replies - feel free to "flame" me if this should rather go
> the the "users" list, but I considered these questions quite technical for
> the users-list.
> 
> Any insights would be good, as I need to consider how to best backup the
> systems.
> Anybody had success letting ntbackup write to windows named pipes that the
> windows fd will read? Would be more difficult to set up, especially for a
> restore, but would not need local storage for the backup-files).
> 
> Keep up the excellent work,
>  Wolfgang
> 
> -- 
> Wolfgang Voos
> 
> e-mail: mer...@qu...
> 
> 
> 
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