Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
>  
> One problem with ntfsclone is that as written, you need to run it from
> Linux and mount the drive... but conceptually the idea of having
> another program to back up the metada byte-by-byte while using the
> pooling of BackupPC to save the file data sounds like the ideal. In
> particular, accurate cloning of the metadata would make sure that you
> captured all the subtleties of the filesystem while pooling maximizes
> the efficiency of the data backup.

Maybe someone could come up with the minimal system that you'd have to 
clone in a clonezilla image to get the magic filesystem stuff right, 
then modify the clonezilla restore script to drop that in, then pull the 
latest backup from backuppc via ssh and restore on top of it.  Likewise 
for linux it would be nice to have backuppc store enough information 
about the filesystem that clonezilla (or a similar live CD) could 
reproduce the formatting and then restore the files.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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