On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Andreas Piening
<andreas.piening AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Hi Les,
>
> excuse my floppy frase: Real time recovery is not what I'm looking for. I
> ment I want to be able to get the system into a workable state simply by
> downloading and restoring from an image. If I need to manually assemble the
> system disk from a file based backup and fiddle around with a non-bootable
> and hard to debug windows server that's not a solution for me. Repairing a
> broken windows installation is an extremely time consuming pain compared to
> react on some "file not found" or "wrong path" error messages from a
> linux-os which directly leads to the problem.
>
> I understand your concept with restoring a (not necessary up-to-date) image
> and doing a file based restore on top, but I have never tried this and don't
> feel so comfortable with this.

I don't put the images (clonezilla or VM files) into backuppc at all.
The copies just work as they usually do.  And once they are running,
you just have the same process you would have if someone deleted
something accidentally to bring the files back from backuppc.

> Please can you tell me more concrete about the windows-version you did this
> with and did you use the "normal" ntfs file-system driver or ntfs-3g while
> doing the file-based "overlay" restore?

I don't do an overlay restore.  Just smb or rsync.

> How often have you done this successfully or better have you ever had
> problems with file permissions, lost attributes or anything else? Or have
> you done additional steps for getting the system drive bootable again?

The (possibly outdated, but complete) VM image or clonezilla backup
will boot.   The windows systems I back up are either single-purpose
application servers where I know how to reinstall that app if needed,
or generic file servers where there isn't much windows magic.   There
are more complex windows servers in the company where it might be
important to track frequent registry changes and program updates, but
someone else manages them, probably with proprietary programs.  If I
had to do those, I'd probably at least use the volume shadow copy
tools during the backup.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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