On Thursday 23 September 2010 19:43:14 Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 05:52:26PM +0200, Marcus Hardt wrote:
> > [..]
> > 
> > > I think it does the basic permissions that map to unix
> > > equivalents.  It doesn't preserve acls, nor does it have any way
> > > to work around the existing ones - so you may have files that
> > > you can read in the backups but can't write back over the
> > > existing copy
> > 
> > Right. There might be files already the image restoration done in
> > an earlier step.
> > 
> > 
> > Would s.th. like this work:
> > 
> > 1: Restore an half year old image, using dd (for partition table and
> > MBR's sake)
> > 2; Mount it
> > 3: "rm -rf" it
> > 4: Copy the backup
> > 
> > Or would this kill the windows installation at some point?
> 
> 0.o
> 
> I really don't think that would work.
> 
> The big thing here is that you *can't modify open files in Windows*.
> That includes all of the system libraries.  This is probably the
> source of a lot of your trouble.

Sure. I'd thought of doing this after booting a grml live linux cd.

-- 
M.


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