On 09/26 09:39 , xpac wrote:
> An entire server?

Yep. I've done many disaster recoveries of entire linux servers which were
backed up with rsync. Linux doesn't have the file-locking issues of Windows,
so backups are just taking copies of every file on the system, and recovery
is just a matter of booting with a rescue disk like Knoppix, creating
partitions and filesystems, then streaming the tarball from the BackupPC
server to the target machine using netcat (or it could be done over SSH).

Bare metal restores are something like this, once you've created the
filesystems.

On the server side:
backuppc$ /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate <options>| netcat 
<targethost>
<targetport>

On the target side:
root# netcat -l <targetport> | tar xvp

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Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
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