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Thomas Karcher wrote:
> 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.

Personally, I would suspect the simplest method is a knoppix CD, boot
up, install backuppc, mount the usb drive, and away you go. When
finished, remove the knoppix CD and unplug the USB drive, and leave the
PC exactly as you found it.

PS, there are methods for customising a knoppix cd, so you could in fact
pre-install backuppc so that it is already configured/running/tested...

Regards,
Adam

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