Re: [Bacula-devel] Backing up MS Exchange

2008-09-10 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 10 September 2008 12:15:24 James Harper wrote: > > Yes, I haven't figured out exactly how we will handle this. From what > > I > > > read > > on the web, if you are doing a VSS backup (Bacula is backing up the > > whole > > > system), Exchange is sort of blocked or locked, so doing th

Re: [Bacula-devel] Backing up MS Exchange

2008-09-10 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 10 September 2008 12:06:46 James Harper wrote: > > In case, this is not clear, if Bacula has the following records for a > > single file: > > > > Full, Inc1, Inc2, Inc3. > > > > on a restore it will put back: > > > > Full, Inc3. > > > > while if I understand correctly, for Exchange we

Re: [Bacula-devel] Backing up MS Exchange

2008-09-10 Thread James Harper
> > Yes, I haven't figured out exactly how we will handle this. From what I > read > on the web, if you are doing a VSS backup (Bacula is backing up the whole > system), Exchange is sort of blocked or locked, so doing the normal API > calls > to Exchange either fail or won't work correctly. As a

Re: [Bacula-devel] Backing up MS Exchange

2008-09-10 Thread James Harper
> In case, this is not clear, if Bacula has the following records for a > single file: > > Full, Inc1, Inc2, Inc3. > > on a restore it will put back: > > Full, Inc3. > > while if I understand correctly, for Exchange we will want to restore: > > Full, Inc1, Inc2, Inc3 That depends on impleme

Re: [Bacula-devel] Backing up MS Exchange

2008-09-10 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello again, By the way, I enabled the Win32 dll plugin loading code this morning and have committed it to the SVN. I have not yet built a Win32 Bacula plugin dll so I am not sure this code will work, but at least it is now turned on. Best regards, Kern --

Re: [Bacula-devel] Backing up MS Exchange

2008-09-10 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 10 September 2008 02:18:08 James Harper wrote: > > > > 2. As an option be able to do brick level backup or at least brick > > > > level restore. > > > > > > I am lead to believe that Backup Exec can do a brick level (or at > > least > > > > mailbox level) restore from a full backup, so

Re: [Bacula-devel] Backing up MS Exchange

2008-09-09 Thread James Harper
> > > 2. As an option be able to do brick level backup or at least brick > > > level restore. > > > > I am lead to believe that Backup Exec can do a brick level (or at least > > mailbox level) restore from a full backup, so maybe there are API's to > > do that, or maybe just under Exchange 2007. >

Re: [Bacula-devel] Backing up MS Exchange

2008-09-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello James, First thanks for agreeing to work on the Bacula Exchange Plugin. For the list, I gave James a brief spec of what is needed and he has responded to that. On Tuesday 09 September 2008 08:04:14 James Harper wrote: > > Basically, think we need several options starting from simple and t