On 5/10/2010 9:14 AM, Boniforti Flavio wrote:
> Hy there...
>> So with that you would restore with BackupEdge and then go
>> into your BackuPC repository to see what is outdated. Much
>> quicker in my setup.
>> Your pay back may be different.
>
> I'm not into *buying* a new piece of software, instead I'd really like
> to achieve "bare metal restore" with opensource software.

If you know your way around fdisk, mke2fs, and grub, you can boot about 
any 'live' CD or install disk with rescue mode that lets you bring up 
the network on the replacement machine.  Then you can make similar 
partitions and filesystens, mount them somewhere into the running 
system, and ssh a BackupPC_tarCreate command to the backuppc server to 
generate the tar image(s) you need, piped to a local tar extract.  Then 
make sure that the restored /etc/fstab has the right partition names and 
re-install grub so the new system will boot.

If you want something more automated and can take the system down 
occasionally, you can use clonezilla to make an image copy of a working 
system once in a while.  It will restore fairly quickly and 
automatically to similar hardware and you can follow up with a backuppc 
restore to be completely up to date.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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