Neal Becker wrote:

> 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?
> 
rsync wouldn't be a good solution in this szenario.
You don't have any data on the client. So rsync wouldn't find anything to 
compare with.
Because that - other solutions, like tar, are smarter because faster.

br
Matthias
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