Howdy, I am running bacula-dir version 1.38.11 (28 June 2006) on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. I am fairly new to Bacula, and have just configured two Unix machines and one Windows XP machine with bacula-fd. Backups have been running consistently for several weeks now without issue to a USB2.0 attached 400GB external drive. I am truly amazed to see what is now a 200GB single file on this disk, but all seems well.
Yesterday I had to blow away the disk on the Windows box temporarily, and thought this would be a perfect time to test the restore. I had temporarily installed FreeBSD on this disk to perform a few tasks, and now wanted my windows box back. First I installed XP again. I haven't investigated the use of the "bare metal recovery" tools, but decided I might get around the problem of open files and registry by removing the drive, attaching it to a USB2.0/IDE interface, and mounting the disk on another windows box. I installed the bacula-fs client on this machine and let it pretend to be the old box on its old IP. Then I started the restore. Now I have a few questions. 1) The disk is now mounted as "E:\" on the windows box. When the default recovery options popped up, I changed the restore destination to "E:/". Sadly, instead of writing from root, it created a "C" directory in E:\, and started the restore in there. Can this be overridden in some way? 2) The relevant backup jobs were close to the middle of the 200GB file on my backup volume, and it took literally three hours to seek to the right place before it started the restore. Surely this isn't right. Can't it jump right to the correct block in this file and start restoring? Sorry if these questions are not unique. I searched the bacula site for a wiki or some kind of search of the users mailing list, but came up empty. I could easily have missed it, and if someone would point me to any kind of forum that I could search for my own answers that would be greatly appreciated. I promise to read: http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Disast_Recove_Using_Bacula.html before attempting this again! I just want to get my windows box back :( Cheers! Jeff LaCoursiere Network Consultant Southland Gaming Virgin Islands [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
