The long and short of it is that bare-metal windows restores are currently
not possible, and will not be possible without having a client-side agent
running windows .NET commands to access the registry and locked files.
When dealing with windows machines, your backup strategy should be to
preserve crucial working data, and not a complete machine snapshot.
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Kurt Tunkko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
>
> 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
>
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