On 07/22 11:51 , Kurt Tunkko wrote:
> Paul, Carl,
> 
> thanks for the helpful answers.
> 
> I see the problem restoring a windows client, but wouldn't it be 
> possible to make a bare metal restore with 3 steps:
> 
> 1) doing a bare-metal-restore with an image that has been created 
> without backuppc but ntfsclone. This would restore the bootloader and 
> the operating system
> 
> 2) booting the client with a Linux Live CD and mounting its harddrive.
> 
> 3) using tar (over ssh/or netcat) to write the backup from backuppc to 
> the mounted harddrive on the client.

Maybe. Depends what data you're restoring, and how much it interferes with
the registry. This doesn't work for a lot of applications; but just for pure
data, it should.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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