Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > I've done bare metal restores as well; and provided that I was backing up > the whole OS to backuppc, the general sequence is: > 1) 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) > 2) partition disks and create filesystems > 3) on the server side, use BackupPC_tarCreate piped to netcat to send the > data > 4) on the new machine, use netcat piped to tar to unpack the data stream > onto the disks > 5) rewrite your bootloader > 6) reboot
Will this procedure also work, when restoring a windows client-pc, if I booted using Knoopix-Live-CD on the client? Can you give some details about how you're using netcat to send the data to the other machine - wouldn't this also be possible using SSH? best regards - Kurt ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
