For what it might be worth, I will add my two cents . . . . .

I have a very simplistic view of the backup process. First, I have 
BackupPC running for weekly full backups and nightly incremental backups.

Also, every Sunday morning, I go to each computer with a current version 
of Clonezilla live cd. This creates my bare metal backup option for me.

The Clonezilla backup image is "pushed" via ssh to my backuppc/ssh file 
server. Should I have a catastrophic hardware failure (we all do some 
times) I have a clonezilla image from the previous Sunday morning to 
automatically (for the most part) re-create the machine on a new hard 
drive (my last hardware failure situation.)

Then, depending on what day of week it is, I can restore the remainder 
with BackupPC.

Now, for those who will ask detail question about this, I have condensed 
my description to simplify the answer. My suggestion is that you need to 
learn about clonezilla live cd and use it to create this bare metal 
image. I have found this to be a simple solution for my computers. (My 
daughter's laptop & desktop, my wife's company work laptop, as well as 
my laptop and desktop. BTW, my wife's company IT people what me to tell 
them how I can backup her laptop without loading any software onto it, 
company policy and all. When I mentioned 'live cd' the IT people said, 
"ok, no problem.")

-- 
Bob Wooden
Nashville, TN

"Enjoying life at my best!"


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