On 22 Jul 2008 at 17:25, Kurt Tunkko wrote:

I think that depends upon the OS.   I have had to do a couple of bare metal 
restores and backupPC was a big part of it.

Step one have good documentation of the system configuration during 
original install.

Step two install the OS according to documentation

Step 3   get the client running on the client.  This is ususally pretty 
streight 
forward.

Step 4 tell backup pc to basically restore everything

Step 5 reboot and you should be up just as the old system was.

> Jack wrote:
> 
> > Many restores are not due to a 'meltdown', even thought that does happen,
> > they are due to accidently deleting or modifying a file.  
> 
> That's true, but IF something really bad happens and some (or even one) 
> client AND the BackupPC server are damaged you've have a problem.
> If the BackupPC Server holds all the backup you have a single point of 
> failure -> bad!
> 
>  > Doing a 'bear metal restore' is beyond the scope of BackupPC as
>  > normally configured.
> 
> Maybe it's sufficient to throw in some (full disk image) backups using 
> ClonZilla or G4L in order to be able to restore the BackupPC server 
> after a crash?!
> 
> - Kurt
> 
> 
> 
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