I have found PBA to be simple and useful. After using it for some time, I even set up the client to PXE boot off the network.
http://canned-os.blogspot.com/2006/12/personal-backup-appliance-getting.html G Les Mikesell wrote: > Bernhard Ott wrote: > >> as Andreas said before bare metal restore is not the thing you can do >> best with backuppc, so many folks around here use backuppc for data and >> other products for imaging system-partitions. >> I use partimage for cloning windows hosts (careful: it doesn't work on >> amd64 platform, http://www.partimage.org/), >> if you want to restore a bunch of hosts you should have a look at >> http://www.clonezilla.org/. > > When you are looking at clonezilla, it may seem very complicated since > some of the documentation is intertwined with drbl, a server-based > network booting system. If you aren't mass-cloning, look at the > clonezilla-live section instead. This is a bootable CD image or a > system you can put on a usb drive, that boots into a menu where you can > connect to a network server via nfs, samba, or ssh or use local storage, > then it will do a whole-disk or partition save or restore. It knows > enough about most windows and Linux filesystems to only save the used > space in the image and with the whole disk option it will reproduce the > partitioning and filesystems for you. > -- ============================= Gene Cooper Sonora Communications, Inc. 936 W. Prince Road Tucson, AZ 85705 (520) 293-8461 x101 (520) 888-4060 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
