Re: [Bacula-users] Input on backing up a SAN

2012-11-14 Thread David Palmer
Phil, I am planning on mounting a snapshot on the SAN as Chris has indicated he is currently doing. David On 11/14/2012 10:48 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > Sorry, I missed the "SAN" in the subject line. You may or may not be > able to perform backups directly from the SAN. If you can, it is l

Re: [Bacula-users] Input on backing up a SAN

2012-11-14 Thread David Palmer
I have never looked into fsfreeze thanks for that little nugget. Two of the main file servers are windows based so I think that I will use the bacula client vss support to freeze the data for those two severs. David On 11/14/2012 10:11 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, David Pal

[Bacula-users] Input on backing up a SAN

2012-11-14 Thread David Palmer
I am looking at ways to speed up our backups as our data continues to grow. We currently have an equallogic group that stores much of our information. One idea that we had for speeding up backups is to have a file server that is separate from our production file servers and mounting the data vo

[Bacula-users] Virtual Full Backups Schedule Considerations

2012-04-05 Thread David Palmer
Hello, I am looking at moving towards virtual full backups as a way to cut down on our backup times. The situation is that our full backups on several of our file servers are running over their window. My question is what could the draw backs be to moving towards virtual full backups? I curren

Re: [Bacula-users] Exchange 2007 backup

2012-03-20 Thread David Palmer
You can use execute diskshadow (which is built into server 2008) before the backup to make a shadow copy of the drive. Once the backup is complete and shadow is deleted the logs will truncate. http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2009/01/23/exchange-2007-and-windows-2008-using-d