rLes Mikesell wrote at about 17:58:39 -0600 on Tuesday, November 24, 2009:
 > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
 > >  
 > > One problem with ntfsclone is that as written, you need to run it from
 > > Linux and mount the drive... but conceptually the idea of having
 > > another program to back up the metada byte-by-byte while using the
 > > pooling of BackupPC to save the file data sounds like the ideal. In
 > > particular, accurate cloning of the metadata would make sure that you
 > > captured all the subtleties of the filesystem while pooling maximizes
 > > the efficiency of the data backup.
 > 
 > Maybe someone could come up with the minimal system that you'd have to 
 > clone in a clonezilla image to get the magic filesystem stuff right, 
 > then modify the clonezilla restore script to drop that in, then pull the 
 > latest backup from backuppc via ssh and restore on top of it.  Likewise 
 > for linux it would be nice to have backuppc store enough information 
 > about the filesystem that clonezilla (or a similar live CD) could 
 > reproduce the formatting and then restore the files.

Agreed 100%. That's exactly what I was so roughly trying to outline in
my full post. There would also be the additional (and potentially not
trivial) work to get clonezilla to run on an active windows
system. I'm not sure if it can read all the NTFS metada from a
shadow copy but there has to be some way to do it since Norton Ghost
is able to clone a live system using some type of shadow copy.

I wish we had more Windows power users in this group, since I would
(and have been) willing to commit effort to this project but I am
anything but a filesystem or Windows guru.

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