Backing up Windows Server 2008 & Exchange Server 2007 With Bacula
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…
Booting a Centos Xen Dom0 under VMWare
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!
A few interesting links….
Plus Trent Reznor has finally announced in the nin.com Q/A section when the next Nine Inch Nails album is going to be released!
Random Flickr Photos
Seans Twitter Stream
- RT @kylegordon: .RT @mgdm: Windows 8 vs. AOL: i.imgur.com/3mF7a.jpg 1 day ago
- RT @pndc: Ubuntu Unity: proving that people who don't understand MacOS X are doomed to reinvent it, badly. 1 day ago
- I'm pleasantly surprised, Yodel/NDNL have delivered a couple of parcels on time and undamaged :) 2 days ago
- RT @qikipedia: New Scientist joke: What's a good gift for a homeopath? An empty box with the memory of the chocolates it once contained 2 days ago
- RT @kylegordon: .RT @27bslash6: Not every email I receive is negative and I'm not sure how to answer this one. i.imgur.com/5UtyY.png 3 days ago
- #RaspberryPI running XBMC/OpenElec.tv powered from TV USB port and streaming video from network - it works! :) yfrog.com/nwar4osj 4 days ago
- Just chillin... http://t.co/0v6IApIE 1 week ago
- Ooh, missed this news; Rocksmith uk release in Sept! eurogamer.net/articles/2012-… 1 week ago
- Alas, the RPI will have to wait. I have a poorly @lcardus and baby to look after today. 1 week ago
- Well look at what we have here then. Yay \o/ yfrog.com/ocbg4cyj @Raspberry_Pi 1 week ago
