I would like to just clarify why I do it this way. When I first took this job we did just that. get out the OS disks, rebuild the File Systems, then do a restore from the tapes. It took us an entire day. I also had to rebuild all of my user accounts and printers and shares as the process they had been using called for that.
I then used the restore process in the backup software and it went to a two hour job. Also with the ever changing hard drive sizes I could take any new drive that inevitably was much larger than the one that went belly up this software repartioned the drive accordingly for me. Also it essentially is using Tar so in a pinch I could just use tar to read a tape if I wanted. So the driving factor here was my time. Instead of doing all of that work, I could just swap out the drive, insert the media and let it roll. During that time I could do other things that came up. The end result also was peace of mind when a disaster happened. Again this works for me as my systems are non RAID, one drive suystems that could live quite well in a 2gb drive enviroment, but today I can't do that. Sometimes spending a little money up front (in my case $200 a server) and then reaoing the benefit of time and sanity in the other end. >>> Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> 05/10/10 10:49 AM >>> On 5/10/2010 9:14 AM, Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Hy there... >> So with that you would restore with BackupEdge and then go >> into your BackuPC repository to see what is outdated. Much >> quicker in my setup. >> Your pay back may be different. > > I'm not into *buying* a new piece of software, instead I'd really like > to achieve "bare metal restore" with opensource software. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/