add this to the list of possible Windows imaging issues: http://anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3691 -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizo
Author: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome AT real-time DOT com>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:13:58 -0600
Thanks for the link, that's an informative article. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Communi
Author: Chris Bennett <chris AT ceegeebee DOT com>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:32:03 +1030
Hi All, I'm hoping to catch the eye of some clever combined BackupPC/Windows admins that can tell me what I'm trying to do will not work, or can help me to understand why what I'm doing isn't working
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:11:04 -0500
Chris Bennett wrote at about 16:32:03 +1030 on Sunday, November 22, 2009: I'm very interested in this topic since I have been spending a lot of time developing my "shadowmountrsync" routines which at
Author: Chris Bennett <chris AT ceegeebee DOT com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:35:31 +1030
Hi Jeff, Great to hear from you - I was going to mention your script in my first post, as it's a fantastic contribution to the problem I'm trying to solve. The funny thing is I spent the better part
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:23:44 -0500
Chris Bennett wrote at about 08:35:31 +1030 on Wednesday, November 25, 2009: Thanks for the kind words... And I too am a newbie on Windows -- and frustrated by the complexity of what is required to g
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:39:32 -0500
Chris Bennett wrote at about 08:35:31 +1030 on Wednesday, November 25, 2009: Thanks for the kind words... And I too am a newbie on Windows -- and frustrated by the complexity of what is required to g
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:58:39 -0600
Maybe someone could come up with the minimal system that you'd have to clone in a clonezilla image to get the magic filesystem stuff right, then modify the clonezilla restore script to drop that in,
Author: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:17:22 +1100
Have been meaning to jump in on this conversation, but anyway, better late than never... In one instance, I've done the following: Using the version of rsync which automatically uses vss to backup op
Author: Chris Bennett <chris AT ceegeebee DOT com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:21:05 +1030
Definitely, given the additional information you've contributed.. :) That's great to know that _something_ works. I'm actually surprised ACL's were not the biggest of your problems. As Les suggested
Author: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:22:27 +1100
I don't exclude *any* files at all. The only errors I see from the backup are (about 70 per night): Remote[1]: rsync: send_files failed to open "System Volume Information/{d8d52fa7-cfa7-11de-bd0f-000
Author: Chris Bennett <chris AT ceegeebee DOT com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:03:26 +1030
Excellent - thanks for the additional information. I'll communicate back any test results and perhaps we'll be closer to restoring Windows systems as easily as a Linux system :) Regards, Chris Benne
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:46:17 -0500
rLes Mikesell wrote at about 17:58:39 -0600 on Tuesday, November 24, 2009: Agreed 100%. That's exactly what I was so roughly trying to outline in my full post. There would also be the additional (and
Author: Chris Bennett <chris AT ceegeebee DOT com>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:00:07 +1030
You may have realised this already, but the previous suggestion was to just have a minimal clone of an equivalent base Windows system - it doesn't have to be a clone of the server you want to restor
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:23:01 -0600
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Chris Bennett <chris AT ceegeebee DOT com> wrote: Yes, the idea would be to have a minimal base image of the OS that you would not have to update, or at least not fr
I have cloned Windows systems (win 2k to XP) by using sysrescucd. First I would use ntfsresize to re-size the file system to the smalist disk I would restore to. This is not necessary if you will alw
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:28:07 -0500
Bob Weber wrote at about 13:23:55 -0500 on Thursday, November 26, 2009: What is sysrescucd? Not sure why you need to use 'dd' before ntfsclone. I thought that ntfsclone was supposed to clone the enti
Author: Leen Besselink <leen AT consolejunky DOT net>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:56:32 +0100
Hi, (only just now discovered this thread) I'm someone that completely agrees on the subject of Windows and backup and the complexity of it. It's one of the reasons I would never setup Windows as a s
...Bob On 11/29/2009 05:28 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Bob Weber wrote at about 13:23:55 -0500 on Thursday, November 26, 2009: What is sysrescucd? Not sure why you need to use 'dd' before ntfsclon
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:55:19 -0600
Clonezilla does a good job of cloning windows systems as long as the target as the same size or larger than the source, so you could probably look through its scripts to see what it uses besides ntfs