Les Mikesell wrote at about 11:59:55 -0500 on Wednesday, April 8, 2009:
 > John Rouillard wrote:
 > > 
 > >>>
 > >>>> I'm looking for something that can be fired up easily on a
 > >>>> windows/mac without much concern for its physical hardware
 > >> 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...
 > > 
 > > That's the route I started down. Didn't get to the end yet though
 > > 8-). But having that cd would be a major win.
 > 
 > Hmmm..., a while back I tried to set up a large USB drive to boot 
 > clonezilla (basically a live debian or ubuntu with some partition 
 > imaging utilities) and also have a partition to hold images for one-stop 
 > cloning but had trouble getting it to boot.  Maybe that would be the 
 > best starting point - just install backuppc on that too and connect the 
 > current backuppc disk on another USB port.  Then I'd be able to image 
 > any compatible hardware with our standard starting images and drop 
 > current backup updates on top, besides being able to run it over the 
 > network.  I just need to figure out why it wouldn't boot, but that was 
 > several versions ago.
 > 
 > Which reminds me - I think with some minor tweaks it might be possible 
 > to make clonezilla restore from a backuppc archive.  You'd just need to 
 > have the partition layout saved so clonezilla could reconstruct it, then 
 > at the point where it normally restores an image, format the filesystem 
 > and do a tar restore from the backuppc data instead.  Normally this 
 > could be pulled from the running backuppc server with an ssh command, 
 > but in a disaster recovery scenario with clonezilla running and the 
 > backuppc archive disk available you could pipe directly from 
 > BackupPCtarCreate.

That sounds very interesting...

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