Hi Jeff, > I'm very interested in this topic since I have been spending a lot of > time developing my "shadowmountrsync" routines which attempt to > automate the backup part of your approach outlined above. So far I > have robustly implemented startup of shadows and backup of acls (using > subinacl and/or getfacl).
Great to hear from you - I was going to mention your script in my first post, as it's a fantastic contribution to the problem I'm trying to solve. The funny thing is I spent the better part of a weekend working out how it all works _before_ I found your script, but what you've put together has been a good reference for me nonetheless. I'm primarily trying to do this with rsync over ssh, so the details are a little different, but the 'at' job schedule to work around the passphrase ssh login problem was a very clever idea (that I had not found elsewhere). > 1. What is 'fileacl' and how is it better/worse than subinacl? > (which seems to backup all the ACL info (vs. the limited getfacl > capabilities) Good question - it's a tool I found in 2007 when I last had a look at doing more then file-level backups with backuppc. http://www.gbordier.com/gbtools/fileacl.asp I had not heard/seen of subinacl or getfacl until I looked at your work (hint: I'm not a Windows admin.. :) ) I'm willing to use whatever works, and fileacl claims save/restore acl's comprehensively. I've tried both fileacl and subinacl with the same results. I'm wondering what isn't restored by a file-level restore, permission restore, and then a fixboot / fixmbr. Or whether it's something to do with the change of 'hard disks' (in my case VMWare vmdk files). Or whether the on-disk block location of some files is stored somewhere and that breaks on the restore. Coming from a Linux background, I don't know why it has to be so hard to understand how to perform a full system recovery without forking out $$.. :) > 2. What does the "ntbackup of systemstate" add? > If I understand that better, I would be happy to add it as an > additional option to shadowmountrsync. Well, I don't know the details as it's all a little abstract, but reading: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc785306(WS.10).aspx gives some hints on what it covers, and I'm just used to seeing it be done with other backup tools. For some of it's components backed up (e.g. AD), I think additional massaging is done on backup, and when restored, additional unrolling/replaying of files onto the system instead of just file-level recovery. But I could be way off there. > Please keep me informed on your progress on getting bare-metal > restores to work. I am very interested in getting this all working. My major aim is to do a backup/restore out of band without recovering a base-os installed. Barring that, I want to work out what the minimum amount of work is required before I can restore from my backuppc files / permission dump and have the system functioning as it was at the time of backup. I hope someone out there with the right Windows knowledge can provide some additional answers to the questions we are asking. Regards, Chris Bennett cgb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ 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/
