On 07/22 11:51 , Kurt Tunkko wrote: > Paul, Carl, > > thanks for the helpful answers. > > I see the problem restoring a windows client, but wouldn't it be > possible to make a bare metal restore with 3 steps: > > 1) doing a bare-metal-restore with an image that has been created > without backuppc but ntfsclone. This would restore the bootloader and > the operating system > > 2) booting the client with a Linux Live CD and mounting its harddrive. > > 3) using tar (over ssh/or netcat) to write the backup from backuppc to > the mounted harddrive on the client.
Maybe. Depends what data you're restoring, and how much it interferes with the registry. This doesn't work for a lot of applications; but just for pure data, it should. -- 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 [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
