On 07/22 12:04 , Ray Todd Stevens wrote: > I think that depends upon the OS. I have had to do a couple of bare metal > restores and backupPC was a big part of it.
I've done bare metal restores as well; and provided that I was backing up the whole OS to backuppc, the general sequence is: -- boot with Knoppix or some other rescue distro (there was [is?] some bug in backuppc that causes issues with restoring symlinks over tar for some reason) -- partition disks and create filesystems -- on the server side, use BackupPC_tarCreate piped to netcat to send the data -- on the new machine, use netcat piped to tar to unpack the data stream onto the disks -- rewrite your bootloader -- reboot takes about 20 minutes, depending on the amount of data to be restored, and if nothing goes terribly wrong. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
