An entire server?

I see from their documentation "It is likely that linux/unix backups done using 
tar (rather than smb) can be used to reconstruct a complete file system, 
although I haven't tried it."

I'm just wondering if anybody does this in practice, or if you just have a 
generic server build image on hand and have to install that first and then 
restore to it in the case of catastrophic disaster.  

Sorry if this is a basic question, I just come from a Netbackup background so 
things are a bit different with BackupPC  :D

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