Hi Jack,
as Andreas said before bare metal restore is not the thing you can do 
best with backuppc, so many folks around here use backuppc for data and 
other products for imaging system-partitions.
I use partimage for cloning windows hosts (careful: it doesn't work on 
amd64 platform, http://www.partimage.org/),
if you want to restore a bunch of hosts you should have a look at
http://www.clonezilla.org/.

Hope that helps,
Bernhard


Jack wrote:
> Ok, I have not found this, and it must be 'out there' somewhere.
> 
> I would like to be able to do a 'bear metal restore' for both Linux and
> Windows.
> 
> I have done it using a commercial product on Windows (basics were:
> build a 'new' installation with just the minimal network basics, with the
> c:\windows somewhere else (like c:\winx ) if c:\windows is your 'system'
> directory.
> then restore all the data, including the c:\windows directory, 
> restore the 'system state', reboot the machine.  It is now exactly
> the same as it was before, after you erase c:\winx
> 
> I never did it on Linux.  I basically have just built a 'new' machine and
> restored data, and re-installed all programs.  Doing bear metal here would
> be
> nice too.
> 
> Does someone know where I can ReadTheFineManual for some 'how-to's' with
> BackupPC?
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
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