Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> I've done bare metal restores as well; and provided that I was backing up
> the whole OS to backuppc, the general sequence is:
> 1) boot with Knoppix or some other rescue distro (there was [is?] some bug
> in backuppc that causes issues with restoring symlinks over tar for some
> reason)
> 2) partition disks and create filesystems
> 3) on the server side, use BackupPC_tarCreate piped to netcat to send the
> data
> 4) on the new machine, use netcat piped to tar to unpack the data stream
> onto the disks
> 5) rewrite your bootloader
> 6) reboot

Will this procedure also work, when restoring a windows client-pc, if I 
booted using Knoopix-Live-CD on the client?

Can you give some details about how you're using netcat to send the data 
to the other machine - wouldn't this also be possible using SSH?

best regards

- Kurt

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