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.
> 
I'd make sure that before you made my original image, that you had 
rsyncd installed and configured.  That way once you restore from the 
image, you should be able to use BackupPC to restore all your data -- no 
live cd needed.

-Rob
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