Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc

A cursory glance at ntfsclone's man page (available at http://man.linux-ntfs.org/ntfsclone.8.html) states that ntfsclone deals exclusively with the filesystem, and not with the bootloader at all. If you were trying this on a brand new drive in the case of a hard drive failure, you'd be dead in the water til you wrote to the bootloader.

Regardless the technique you describe is not a bare-metal restore since you are using two steps instead of one.

A working strategy would be to do a fresh install (from a prepared image, preferably) and restore the files via tarball (or the Knoppix liveCD if you don't have GNU util capabilites on the machine).

Adios,

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Kurt Tunkko <kurt.tunko AT web DOT de> 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.

just an idea?!

- Kurt

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