Hi, > I'm looking for something that can be fired up easily on a > windows/mac > without much concern for its physical hardware, so I don't think Xen > is > a good fit. I do have a dual-boot laptop - but it spends much of its > time in the same building as the data being backed up and I'd like a > plan that only needs the offsite disk and perhaps an image on a CD or > DVD that is likely to run anywhere.
It doesn't matter which VM technology you choose - the network block device is the main idea. But perhaps I miss the point: You want to run a "desaster recovery" backuppc instance, right? You will have to do this in a *nix environment, since you need to read your backuppc repository filesystem with hard links. Whether you do that in a VM or on a physical machine doesn't matter I guess. So you have two tasks: Make such a desaster recovery system running, and get your last working backuppc repository to it. If you have a physical machine, it's a matter of connecting and mounting. If you have a VM, all I'm saying is: I have good experience with nbd. And as far as I know, there is a NBD server for windows, but I didn't look much into it. This way, you could "export" your USB disk from a windows machine and "import" = mount it from any nbd-capable *nix machine on the same network. Thomas
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