Les Mikesell wrote at about 11:59:55 -0500 on Wednesday, April 8, 2009: > John Rouillard wrote: > > > >>> > >>>> I'm looking for something that can be fired up easily on a > >>>> windows/mac without much concern for its physical hardware > >> Personally, I would suspect the simplest method is a knoppix CD, boot > >> up, install backuppc, mount the usb drive, and away you go. When > >> finished, remove the knoppix CD and unplug the USB drive, and leave the > >> PC exactly as you found it. > >> > >> PS, there are methods for customising a knoppix cd, so you could in fact > >> pre-install backuppc so that it is already configured/running/tested... > > > > That's the route I started down. Didn't get to the end yet though > > 8-). But having that cd would be a major win. > > Hmmm..., a while back I tried to set up a large USB drive to boot > clonezilla (basically a live debian or ubuntu with some partition > imaging utilities) and also have a partition to hold images for one-stop > cloning but had trouble getting it to boot. Maybe that would be the > best starting point - just install backuppc on that too and connect the > current backuppc disk on another USB port. Then I'd be able to image > any compatible hardware with our standard starting images and drop > current backup updates on top, besides being able to run it over the > network. I just need to figure out why it wouldn't boot, but that was > several versions ago. > > Which reminds me - I think with some minor tweaks it might be possible > to make clonezilla restore from a backuppc archive. You'd just need to > have the partition layout saved so clonezilla could reconstruct it, then > at the point where it normally restores an image, format the filesystem > and do a tar restore from the backuppc data instead. Normally this > could be pulled from the running backuppc server with an ssh command, > but in a disaster recovery scenario with clonezilla running and the > backuppc archive disk available you could pipe directly from > BackupPCtarCreate.
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