Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows bare metal restore
2009-11-29 05:31:58
Bob Weber wrote at about 13:23:55 -0500 on Thursday, November 26, 2009:
> I have cloned Windows systems (win 2k to XP) by using sysrescucd.
What is sysrescucd?
> First I would use ntfsresize to re-size the file system to the
> smalist disk I would restore to. This is not necessary if you will
> always use the same disk size or larger. Then I would copy the
> first 100 megs or so (not really sure how much is necessary but
> this amount allways worked) using dd. If the destination disk was
> a different size I would use fdisk to resize the c: partition to
> the size of the new disk making sure the partition always started
> at the same block as the original. If the size is the same I would
> use fdisk to write the the original partition table back so the
> kernel would know the disk partition table changed (this saves a
> reboot since the dd copy process copies a new partition table
> also). Next I would use ntfsclone to clone the whole ntfs file
> system. ntfsclone just copies the data and directory structure so
> it is usually pretty fast. If the disk is bigger than the original
> I would use ntfsresize to resize the ntfs file system to the new
> partition.
>
Not sure why you need to use 'dd' before ntfsclone. I thought that
ntfsclone was supposed to clone the entire ntfs filesystem at a low
level -- analogous to Norton Ghost.
If you are just trying to copy over the partition table then why not
just export that using something like 'sfdisk -d /dev/sdx'.
If you are trying to copy over the MBR, then you would just need to
use dd on the first 512 bytes (if memory servers me).
If I am mistaken, I would be interested in knowing what part of an NTFS is not
copyable by just using ntfsclone (and any sources for additional info
would be most helpful.)
Thanks
> This seems pretty complicated but I used a script to automate the
> process. I used this at a local school system to create classroom
> images saved to Linux server that I could later use to populate all the
> computers in a class. The 2 files for each image were compressed with
> gzip and transferred with ssh to and from the Linux server. Check out
> the documentation that comes with ntfsclone to see examples.
>
> ...Bob
>
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