Hi,

> I'm looking for something that can be fired up easily on a
> windows/mac 
> without much concern for its physical hardware, so I don't think Xen
> is 
> a good fit.  I do have a dual-boot laptop - but it spends much of its 
> time in the same building as the data being backed up and I'd like a 
> plan that only needs the offsite disk and perhaps an image on a CD or 
> DVD that is likely to run anywhere.

It doesn't matter which VM technology you choose - the network block
device is the main idea.

But perhaps I miss the point: You want to run a "desaster recovery"
backuppc instance, right? You will have to do this in a *nix
environment, since you need to read your backuppc repository filesystem
with hard links. Whether you do that in a VM or on a physical machine
doesn't matter I guess. So you have two tasks: Make such a desaster
recovery system running, and get your last working backuppc repository
to it. If you have a physical machine, it's a matter of connecting and
mounting. If you have a VM, all I'm saying is: I have good experience
with nbd. And as far as I know, there is a NBD server for windows, but I
didn't look much into it. This way, you could "export" your USB disk
from a windows machine and "import" = mount it from any nbd-capable *nix
machine on the same network.


Thomas

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