>>>>> On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:15:28 +0200, Foo said: > > On Mon, 10 May 2010 19:51:33 +0200, Kevin Keane <subscript...@kkeane.com> > wrote: > > > There is no such thing as "system state backup" any more in Windows > > 2008. It's always the whole C: drive. I'm not sure how well bacula > > handles it in the end. There also is the issue that Windows 2008 relies > > heavily on junction points, which bacula doesn't handle well. > > My experience so far mirrors yours but others are apparently disagreeing. > I'm getting confused :) > > wbadmin GUI has options for selecting 'system state' and unselecting drive > letters, except it didn't work for me (canceled after it had started > including 60000+ files). This seems to agree with you on including > everything, but I don't understand the point of system state then, or of > being able to unselect C:. > > > I'm using Windows backup to an iSCSI drive, and then use bacula to back > > up a snapshot of that iSCSI volume. > > Is the result of that a monolothic blob like W2K3's ntbackup .bkf or > single files? If it's a monolithic blob, Bacula can't do incrementals > anymore. If it's single files, you would have to keep them around for > incrementals and basically waste twice as much space everywhere, not to > mention whatever problems junctions points becoming files presents. > Whatever it may be, it just seems pointless.
You might want to consider having two backups, for different purposes. Use a Windows full backup for disaster recovery and Full+Incremental Bacula backups for per-file recovery. __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
