Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc

The long and short of it is that bare-metal windows restores are currently not possible, and will not be possible without having a client-side agent running windows .NET commands to access the registry and locked files.

When dealing with windows machines, your backup strategy should be to preserve crucial working data, and not a complete machine snapshot.

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Kurt Tunkko <kurt.tunko AT web DOT de> wrote:

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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