I've done backups of complete systems with BackupPC and bare-metal recovery
from those backups several times. The only problems you're likely to run
into are backing up databases.

As Les said, it is in principle no different from cloning the machine using
tar.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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