> Have been meaning to jump in on this conversation, but anyway, better > late than never...
Definitely, given the additional information you've contributed.. :) > Each night, we run a script which does the following (on the backuppc > server, the live server is only accessed by backuppc - rsyncd for backups): > 1) Make sure the windows 'cdrive' is not mounted > 2) restore the partimage file to the partition > 3) mount the partition in linux > 4) backuppc restore the most recent backup to the cdrive using > BackupPC_tarCreate .... | tar -xf - > 5) umount the 'cdrive' > 6) Check the 'ddrive' is not mounted > 7) mkntfs the 'ddrive' partition > 8) mount 'ddrive' > 9) backuppc restore the most recent backup to the ddrive using > BackupPC_tarCreate .... | tar -xf - > 10) umount the ddrive > > In our testing so far, everything seems to work perfectly, except we > need to "re-activate" MS Windows within 3 days of booting the machine. > Generally we just do our testing without re-activating windows, and also > we don't want to re-activate too many times or it may not work when we > need it to. That's great to know that _something_ works. I'm actually surprised ACL's were not the biggest of your problems. As Les suggested, and you've confirmed, this looks like a good grounding to connect the dots. Does your cdrive backup exclude any particular files (other than 'normal' excludes like pagefile.sys etc)? I'm wondering if the reason your method works with a file level restore over a fully functioning mininmal install, is some kind of dependancy on block-level location for some important data? And if that is the case, no amount of fiddling out-of-band will work unless you preserve block location for whatever those important files are.. e.g. why doesn't a new NTFS file system, file restore, fixboot/fixmbr "just work"? What else is missing? > Please see the script attached, and let me know if you have any > suggestions for improvement. I'll have a play and see if I can replicate your results, as well as try and tie in permissions. I suspect Jeff will be similarly interested in having a look at this. Thanks again for sharing :) 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/
