Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2007-01-18 Thread Dwight Tovey
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 11:34 +1100, James Harper wrote: I've still got a couple of minor issues with restoring a Windows system while using a BartPE CD: * Specifying the target for the restore. The system currently has the following partitions: Part 1 - 100G Primary partition

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2007-01-18 Thread Steen Meyer
Onsdag 17 januar 2007 22:11 skrev Dwight Tovey: I've still got a couple of minor issues with restoring a Windows system while using a BartPE CD: * Specifying the target for the restore. The system currently has the following partitions: Part 1 - 100G Primary partition defined as C:

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2007-01-17 Thread Erich Prinz
On Jan 17, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Dwight Tovey wrote: I've still got a couple of minor issues with restoring a Windows system while using a BartPE CD: * Specifying the target for the restore. The system currently has the following partitions: Part 1 - 100G Primary partition defined as

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2007-01-17 Thread James Harper
The other option that came to mind would be to recover the C partition, boot the machine into Windows, finish creating the remaining partition(s) and restore the balance of the machine while in Windows. After all, we now have a nice wintel version of bacula we can use. If the machine

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2007-01-17 Thread Erich Prinz
On Jan 17, 2007, at 6:37 PM, James Harper wrote: The other option that came to mind would be to recover the C partition, boot the machine into Windows, finish creating the remaining partition(s) and restore the balance of the machine while in Windows. After all, we now have a nice

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2007-01-17 Thread James Harper
It should do. Even Backup Exec will not restore the exchange and SQL databases (except I think the actual backup exec database itself) as part of the disaster recovery restore. You have to restore the disk volumes and system state and then boot up and restore the databases. Ah

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2007-01-17 Thread Erich Prinz
No, not kidding. I agree, it is difficult to tell most of the time in email. I've been using Backup Exec for years. Once Symantec bought out Veritas, things have gone decidedly south with the product. A crying shame. Same thing happened when they acquired Powerquest's product line of disc

[Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2006-09-15 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
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

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2006-09-15 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 9/15/2006 9:38 PM, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: 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

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2006-09-15 Thread Dan Langille
On 15 Sep 2006 at 22:22, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, On 9/15/2006 9:38 PM, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: 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

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2006-09-15 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Dan Langille wrote: Large volumes on *disk* slow down the restore if you're trying to get one file back. GREATLY. Try it. I suggest smaller volumes. e.g. 2GB. Yup, not only have I tried it, but it was question 1) in my original post. It doesn't make any sense,

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2006-09-15 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 15 September 2006 23:20, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Dan Langille wrote: Large volumes on *disk* slow down the restore if you're trying to get one file back. GREATLY. Try it. I suggest smaller volumes. e.g. 2GB. Yup, not only have I tried it, but it was