> 
> Hello,
>       I'm back after a year absence. I have Bacula 2.2.8 installed on
a
> FreeBSD machine. I want first to upgrade then to image an xpsp2
machine. I'm
> wanting to back the system up completely, using vss, ensuring i get
the
> system state, then drop in a new hard disk, one that's larger, boot
from
> some rescue CD, probably one i'm having to make, and then load the
client,
> and recover the backup to the new disk. A reboot should bring windows
up on
> the disk. Has anyone done this or similar?

I have done exactly that before on two occasions - once to replace a
disk that was failing, and another time to put in a larger disk. I used
BartPE with enough of bacula on it to make it run, and then just did the
restore.

I think the only minor issue I had was making the partition active or
writing the MBR or something. The XP install CD booted in recovery mode
had a few options to fix that. Or maybe I used BartPE to do that... it
was quite a few years ago.

The advantage you have in doing this is that if it doesn't work you've
still got the old disk.

James


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