Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?
2009-04-08 13:23:46
Les Mikesell wrote at about 11:59:55 -0500 on Wednesday, April 8, 2009:
> John Rouillard wrote:
> >
> >>>
> >>>> I'm looking for something that can be fired up easily on a
> >>>> windows/mac without much concern for its physical hardware
> >> Personally, I would suspect the simplest method is a knoppix CD, boot
> >> up, install backuppc, mount the usb drive, and away you go. When
> >> finished, remove the knoppix CD and unplug the USB drive, and leave the
> >> PC exactly as you found it.
> >>
> >> PS, there are methods for customising a knoppix cd, so you could in fact
> >> pre-install backuppc so that it is already configured/running/tested...
> >
> > That's the route I started down. Didn't get to the end yet though
> > 8-). But having that cd would be a major win.
>
> Hmmm..., a while back I tried to set up a large USB drive to boot
> clonezilla (basically a live debian or ubuntu with some partition
> imaging utilities) and also have a partition to hold images for one-stop
> cloning but had trouble getting it to boot. Maybe that would be the
> best starting point - just install backuppc on that too and connect the
> current backuppc disk on another USB port. Then I'd be able to image
> any compatible hardware with our standard starting images and drop
> current backup updates on top, besides being able to run it over the
> network. I just need to figure out why it wouldn't boot, but that was
> several versions ago.
>
> Which reminds me - I think with some minor tweaks it might be possible
> to make clonezilla restore from a backuppc archive. You'd just need to
> have the partition layout saved so clonezilla could reconstruct it, then
> at the point where it normally restores an image, format the filesystem
> and do a tar restore from the backuppc data instead. Normally this
> could be pulled from the running backuppc server with an ssh command,
> but in a disaster recovery scenario with clonezilla running and the
> backuppc archive disk available you could pipe directly from
> BackupPCtarCreate.
That sounds very interesting...
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