On 07/22 09:44 , Kurt Tunkko wrote: > 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?
problem with windows is twofold: - backing up the registry - writing the bootloader tools to do these things do exist; but I can't claim to know anything about them or how to do it. > 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? on the backuppc side it would be something like: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h host.domain.tld -n -1 -s / / |gzip -1|nc host.domain.tld 8888 and on the client: nc -l -p 8888 | tar xzv or alternatively: nc -l -p 8888 | tar xzvC /path/to/new/filesystem (if you're not in the directory which should recieve the restore) It may not be worthwhile to compress the data over a fast local link. Probably not, in fact. If you wanted to do it with SSH it would be something like this on the client side: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] '/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h host.domain.tld -n -1 -s / / '| tar xvC /path/to/new/filesystem Let me know if you need an explanation of how these work. -- 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/
