Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> On 04/04 07:40 , Neal Becker wrote:
>> Are there instructions for using backuppc for bare metal restore?
> 
> Probably somewhere. It's fairly straightforward tho.
> 
> Boot the bare-metal machine with Knoppix (or your choice of rescue disks).
> Partition and format the drives.
> Mount the partitions in the arrangement you want. (you'll have to make some
> directories in order to have mount points).
> 
> Set up a listening netcat process to pipe to tar. will look something like:
> netcat -l -p 8888|tar -xpv -C /path/to/mounted/empty/filesystems
> 
> on the BackupPC server, become the backuppc user
> (Presuming it's a Debian box) run '/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate
> -n <backup number> -h <hostname> -s <sharename> <path to files to be
> restored> | netcat <bare-metal machine> 8888'
> 
> the 'backup number' can be '-1' for the most recent version.
> 
> An example of the BackupPC_tarCreate command might be:
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -n -1 -h target.example.com -s /
> / | netcat target.example.com 8888
> 

Thanks.

Would there be a similar procedure using rsync?


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