> On 11/07/12 00:12, Michael Stowe wrote:
>>> The Windows 7 Junctions (which fail) are important directories in
>>> Windows
>>> XP, and I've made an effort to exclude all the junctions from Windows
>>> 7.
>> Huh. XP doesn't have any junction points by default (although it
>> supports
>> them) so I guess you mean you're excluding 7 junctions like "Documents
>> and
>> Settings" instead of backing them up.
>>
>> We just back them up here, because it's simpler and hey, who wants to
>> recreate 50 junction points manually? Then again, we also back up the
>> registries and open files, since those are important to us. We only
>> exclude cache and temp directories, as I recall, and have had the
>> horrifying occasion to perform full restores.
> Could I ask what is your process for a full restore on a windows PC?
> I recently considered to do a complete restore from backuppc for a
> windows 2003 server which had been backed up using your method, but
> ended up resolving the issue without the restore. However, I wasn't very
> confident that I would get a working system from a restore.
>
> In the past, I've had some success with taking a snapshot using dd or
> similar, just after doing the OS install (before the first reboot) and
> then doing a full restore from backuppc (taken with shadow support), and
> this did produce a working system, but it isn't always easy to have an
> image of a machine, so would be great to be able to just use the
> backuppc to do a full restore.
>
> Regards,
> Adam

The short answer is that for a bare metal restore, I first install a stock
OS, then use BackupPC_tarCreate, restore everything to a directory, then
use the recovery console to rotate it into place.  After a reboot,
everything's back, including the registry.

Naturally, I do lose ACLs and whatnot, but aside from a few tweaks, the
process at least works.  I've been considering adding a supplemental ACL
backup to the routine.

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