Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2008 schrieb Jack: > I would like to be able to do a 'bear metal restore' for both Linux and > Windows.
The easiest thing is probably using BackupPC for data recovery only and use a separate product for desaster recovery of the base system (excluding user data). For Windows the usual suspects Ghost and TrueImage can be used. For Linux there are a number of free alternatives which can also do desaster recovery of windows partitions. They are usually just a little more complicated then the commercial windows pendants, but easy enough to handle with some basic Linux knowledge. Personally I have used mondo rescue successfully to build recovery CDs/DVDs for my servers. These recovery CDs/DVDs can be used to restore the base system including the partition layout, etc. from bare metal without any manual intervention in just a few minutes. Boot the CD, choose "Nuke", press OK, drink coffee. From there on it's easy to restore any system updates and the current user data via BackupPC. http://www.mondorescue.org/ Alternative solutions which I have not personally tested are clonezille, ddrescue and probably a bunch of others I do not know. However the basic concept of using one software for desaster recovery and BackupPC for restoring user data applies to all these solutions. Alternatively you can boot some Live CD/DVD and dump the partition layout and any system partitions to an external USB HDD or the like using dd, ntfsclone, etc. mondorescue and the other desaster recovery solutions just automate this process and make it a little more intelligent and space saving. regards, Andreas Micklei -- Andreas Micklei IVISTAR Kommunikationssysteme AG Ehrenbergstr. 19 / 10245 Berlin, Germany http://www.ivistar.de Handelsregister: Berlin Charlottenburg HRB 75173 Umsatzsteuer-ID: DE207795030 Vorstand: Dipl.-Inform. Heiko Schüler Aufsichtsrat: Dr.-Ing. Dirk Elias ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
