On 03/16/10 14:15, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Bob Cousins wrote:
>> - Explicit capturing of boot and partitioning information for easier 
>> bare metal restores. (Bare metal restores should be easy and fast for 
>> all OSes, but that is easier said than done.)
> 
> Do you mean backing up the MBR?  That might be nice alright.

Doing this portably is actually a rather difficult problem because there
are so many different partitioning schemes and partition table formats
out there.  It's a mess.

Clean bare-metal restore has been a feature that's been worked on since
almost the earliest days of Bacula, and there still isn't a clean single
solution, precisely *because* it's a complex problem.



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