[Wiltshire] Xen - DomU Backups

[Michael Da Cova]

Hi 

 

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From: Keith Sudbury [mailto:keith at netzensolutions.com] 
Sent: 19 February 2008 10:45
To: wiltshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Wiltshire] Xen - DomU Backups

 

Will Bacula backup MS Exchange & MS SQL ? Exchange needs it's transaction
log files backed up and cleared I was unaware that Bacula supports this? 

[mdc] 

 

I am told it will and is on my todo list to investigate 

 

Cut from bacula wiki
http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=application_specific_backups

 


exchange_serverExchange Server


Version 2.0 of Bacula includes solid VSS support. This should allow you to
safely back up a consistent snapshot of an Exchange database. Note that the
VSS Writer for Exchange appears to be disabled by default in some versions
of Windows Server, including Small Business Server 2003. You may verify this
is the case by examining the VSS messages, which will look like this: 


Rich, I thought there was already a Windows GUI for Bacula? 

[mdc] 

 

I was talking about the  Bacula Backup server our customer would like a nice
easy to use Director Bacula speak for management server 



Cheers 
Keith 

Michael Da Cova wrote: 

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Richard Reynolds [mailto:richard at uberpussy.net
<mailto:richard at uberpussy.net> ]
|Sent: 19 February 2008 08:43
|To: wiltshire at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:wiltshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> 
|Subject: Re: [Wiltshire] Xen - DomU Backups
|
|Why not use bacula windows client on the windows Domu as well?
[mdc] 
 
Bacula also supports VSS so no horrid open files backup issue under windows 
We as a Company are starting to use Bacula for our customers install
building it into a appliance with a nice front end. 
 
 
 
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|On 18/02/2008, Keith Sudbury  <mailto:keith at netzensolutions.com>
<keith at netzensolutions.com> wrote:
|> Hi Guys,
|>
|> I am setting up a server using Xen for the office we will be using
|> CentOS as the Dom0, It will be running two DomU's Windows 2003SBS & a
|> Linux DomU.
|>
|> I will have a tape drive attached to the Dom0 but as far as I understand
|> the DomU's will not be able to access the tape drive on the Dom0, I was
|> thinking about backing up the Windows box using it's built in MS Backup
|> this will take care of exchange and it's log files etc, I would have it
|> backing up to file on a NFS / SMB mount on the Dom0. I will then run
|> Bacula on the Dom0 and a agent for Bacula on the Linux DomU and backup
|> the whole lot to tape.
|>
|> Does this sound sane to you guys?  Any one have any better ideas /
|> solutions?
|>
|>
|> Regards
|> Keith
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