Hello Joshua > Theoretically, a "bare-metal" restore should be possible by > backing up the entire filesystem. The restore procedure to a
[cut] > In practice though, I've found it takes lots of tries to > perfect the above procedure and it's often easier to > re-install the base OS and just restore critical config > files, application files and data to the box. Bare-metal > restores *sound* sexy, but really they're often just not useful. I liked your explanation... ;-) I think I'll be doing *full* backuppc backup of my server as a first step to have constant backups. My thouhgts are related to eventually recovering the situation. As the server I want to back up is barely a squid proxy, I don't have to back up great amounts of data as it would be in case of a backuppc pool itself. What my concern is about, is the fact that when I'd be reinstalling from scratch on a new HDD, how would I get to the same state of installed/not installed packages as it was on its latest useful backup? Is there any way to somehow extract some sort of "Sysmte State" (like on Windows boxes) to know which packages are installed, and which aren't? Thanks, Flavio Boniforti PIRAMIDE INFORMATICA SAGL Via Ballerini 21 6600 Locarno Switzerland Phone: +41 91 751 68 81 Fax: +41 91 751 69 14 Url: http://www.piramide.ch E-mail: fla...@piramide.ch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
