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Over the past couple of days I’ve been battling away trying to get the Win32 Bacula agent to back up my Windows Server 2008 System State  and Exchange Server 2007 Information Store Databases.

Bacula currently doesn’t support VSS backups of a 64-Bit version of Windows Server 2008, so there’s a number of hoops you have to jump through to get even a semi-reliable System State & Exchange backup.  For an Exchange backup we use the NTBACKUP binaries from Windows Server 2003 64-bit and for the System State we use the Windows Server 2008 wbadmin tools.

For both jobs we’ll use a couple of “Client Run Before Job” commands to trigger client-side scripts to run the client-side backup jobs…

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Just a few quick notes on how I got a CentOS v4.4 Xen dom0 to boot inside a VMWare Server VM…

yum install bridge-utils SDL

rpm -ivh xen-3.0.4.1-1.i386.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.16.33-3.0.4.1.i386.rpm

vi /etc/yum.conf
Add:
exclude=xen xen-kernel xen-devel kernel

mv /lib/tls /lib/tls.disabled

mkinitrd -f -v --preload=scsi_mod --preload=sd_mod --preload=mptbase --preload=mptscsih --preload=mptfc --preload=mptspi /boot/initrd-2.6.16.33-xen_3.0.4.1.img 2.6.16.33-xen_3.0.4.1

vi /boot/grub/grub.conf
Add:
  title Xen v3.0
  root (hd0,0)
  kernel /xen-3.0.gz noreboot dom0_mem=128000
  module /vmlinuz-2.6-xen root=/dev/VolGroup00/root
  module /initrd-2.6-xen.img

Reboot!