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…
Testing stuff
I’ve just made a few back-end changes to my blog:
- Upgraded to WordPress 1.7
- Updated all plugins
- Installed new Facebook integration plugin
- Upgraded to latest version of Windows Live Writer
So this post is just to test all that lot is working correctly 
My Xbox is poorly
Argh!… We turned on the Xbox 360 earlier, and what happened?…
THIS:
So after approx 30 mins on hold to Xbox support, I finally get put through to a call centre where a helpful man takes down my details and registers a free repair. Whilst looking at the serial number label I took note of the manufacture date… 3rd December 2005! Today was my Xbox’s 3rd birthday!
*sniff* :’(
UPDATE 15th Dec: A brand new healthy Xbox landed on my doorstep this afternoon!
The School With Just 50 Pupils – Newspaper Clipping
As there's a few scans of really old photos being uploaded to the St Bertelines School facebook group, I thought I'd ask my mum to try and dig out some old photos. This weekend she dug out a newspaper clipping from back when the school first opened.
I've scanned the photo in and uploaded it to facebook, but as facebook tends to restrict the dimensions of uploaded images I've attached the full size image to this blog post for your viewing pleasure
This scan was taken from the Friday May 13th 1983 edition of the Runcorn World newspaper.
Enjoy! 
New photo collections!
I've finally got round to updating my Gallery with a pile of photos I had on my camera, including last night's amazing Kylie gig.
- Kylie - Live at Newcastle Metro Radio Arena (Photos and Video!)
- Leelas PGCE Graduation
- Simons Leaving Night Out
- Trip to Amsterdam
More photos to come, when I get round to sorting them out...
Enjoy!
Random Flickr Photos
Seans Twitter Stream
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