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[BackupPC-users] Boot drive failure recovery options?

2014-12-31 00:53:04
Subject: [BackupPC-users] Boot drive failure recovery options?
From: Ed Willis <ewillis AT jesande DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 23:44:13 -0500
Howdy all,

I've got a hard disk which I used previously for BackupPC storage which 
I'd like to restore data from.  The original configuration was on Fedora 
but the drive the boot partition and OS were on has failed - so all I've 
got is the drive I designated for backups.  That one I can read just 
fine but the odd compression used for the backups has me stumped 
regarding how to get the latest full backup contents off the drive.  I 
have no other linux machines handy (I'm accessing the drive from Windows 
using ext2fsd) so installing BackupPC on a different machine, then using 
BackupPC_zcat to retrieve all the files (assuming I could get the 
scripting right to end up with the original directory structure) will be 
problematic.

Is there a way to restore my latest full backup using the Windows 
machines I've got handy?

Thanks!

     Ed

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