Next: Up: Previous:.The Windows Version of BaculaAt the current time only the File daemon or Client program has been thouroughly tested on Windows and is suitable for a production environment. As a consequence, when we speak of the Windows version of Bacula below, we are referring to the File daemon (client) only.The Windows version of the Bacula File daemon has been tested on WinXP, Win2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 systems. The Windows version of Bacula is a native Windows port, but there are very few source code changes to the Unix code, which means that the Windows version is for the most part running code that has long proved stable on Unix systems. When running, it is perfectly integrated with Windows and displays its icon in the system icon tray, and provides a system tray menu to obtain additional information on how Bacula is running (status and events dialog boxes). If so desired, it can also be stopped by using the system tray menu, though this should normally never be necessary.Once installed Bacula normally runs as a system service. This means that it is immediately started by the operating system when the system is booted, and runs in the background even if there is no user logged into the system.Windows InstallationNormally, you will install the Windows version of Bacula from the binaries. This install is standard Windows.exe that runs an install wizard using the NSIS Free Software installer, so if you have already installed Windows software, it should be very familiar to you.If you have a previous version of Bacula installed, you should stop the service, uninstall it, and remove the Bacula installation directory possibly saving your bacula-fd.conf, bconsole.conf, and bat.conf files for use with the new version you will install.
The Uninstall program is normally found in c:baculaUninstall.exe. That should complete the installation process. Click on OK to close the Properties tabWith the above procedure, you should now have full control over your restored directory.In addition to the above methods of changing permissions, there is a Microsoft program named cacls that can perform similar functions.Note, most of this section applies to the older Windows OSes that do not have VSS. On newer Windows OSes that have VSS, all files including the System State will by default be properly backed up by Bacula.A suggestion by Damian Coutts using Microsoft's NTBackup utility in conjunction with Bacula should permit a full restore of any damaged system files on Win2K/XP.
Remote Server Administrator Tools For Windows 8.1; In Windows 8 and older versions of Windows 10, right-click the Start button and choose “Control Panel” “Programs” “Programs and Features” “Turn Windows features on or off“. Scroll down and expand the “Remote Server Administration Tools” section. Expand “Role Administration Tools“. Expand “AD DS and AD LDS Tools“. Ensure that “AD DS Tools” is checked, then select “OK“. You should have an option for.
His suggestion is to do an NTBackup of the critical system state prior to running a Bacula backup with the following command:ntbackup backup systemstate /F c:systemstate.bkfThe backup is the command, the systemstate says to backup only the system state and not all the user files, and the /F c:systemstate.bkf specifies where to write the state file. This file must then be saved and restored by Bacula.To restore the system state, you first reload a base operating system if the OS is damaged, otherwise, this is not necessary, then you would use Bacula to restore all the damaged or lost user's files and to recover the c:systemstate.bkf file. Finally if there are any damaged or missing system files or registry problems, you run NTBackup and catalogue the system statefile, and then select it for restore. The documentation says you can't run a command line restore of the systemstate.To the best of my knowledge, this has not yet been tested. If you test it, please report your results to the Bacula email list.Note, Bacula uses VSS to backup and restore open files and system files, but on older Windows machines such as WinNT and Win2000, VSS is not implemented by Microsoft so that you must use some special techniques to back them up as described above. On new Windows machines, Bacula will backup and restore all files including the system state providing you have VSS enabled in your Bacula FileSet (default).A tip from a user: An effective way to restore a Windows backup for those who do not purchase the bare metal restore capability is to install Windows on a different hard drive and restore the backup. Then run the recovery CD and rundiskpartselect disk 0select part 1activeexitbootrec /rebuldbcdbootrec /fixbootbootrec /fixmbrPlease see the Director's Configuration chapterwin32 of this manual for important considerations on how to specify Windows paths in Bacula FileSet Include and Exclude directives.Bacula versions prior to 1.37.28 do not support Windows Unicode filenames.
As of that version, both bconsole and bwx-console support Windows Unicode filenames. There may still be some problems with multiple byte characters (e.g. Chinese.) where it is a two byte character but the displayed character is not two characters wide.Path/filenames longer than 260 characters (up to 32,000) are supported beginning with Bacula version 1.39.20. Older Bacula versions support only 260 character path/filenames.These options are not normally seen or used by the user, and are documented here only for information purposes. At the current time, to change the default options, you must either manually run Bacula or you must manually edit the system registry and modify the appropriate entries.In order to avoid option clashes between the options necessary for Bacula to run on Windows and the standard Bacula options, all Windows specific options are signaled with a forward slash character (/), while as usual, the standard Bacula options are signaled with a minus (-), or a minus minus ( -). All the standard Bacula options can be used on the Windows version.
Bacula Systems Enterprise Data Backup and Recovery 12.0. Backup your data center and free yourself from data volume costs.New Data Center Backup and Recovery FeaturesBacula Enterprise data center integrates the core features from the best open source data backup software – Bacula, into supported, fast, stable and enterprise backup software. Use it to modernize your enterprise data center backup strategy, increase your enterprise data backup software efficiency, and significantly drive costs down.
Here are just a few of its many features. Bacula Admin Training I CourseBacula Systems delivers the best, high quality technical data backup and recovery software, including best practices in enterprise open source data center backup and recovery strategies. Courses are designed to help professionals properly implement and run the best data backup software Bacula.Org and backup software and get the most from its advanced functionality.Bacula Admin Training II CourseThe is the natural next step to acquire the highest level of expertise to design the best backup software in enterprise data centers, dealing with scalability, security, performance and other vital topics, critical in complex or dynamic environments.