For what it might be worth, I will add my two cents . . . . . I have a very simplistic view of the backup process. First, I have BackupPC running for weekly full backups and nightly incremental backups.
Also, every Sunday morning, I go to each computer with a current version of Clonezilla live cd. This creates my bare metal backup option for me. The Clonezilla backup image is "pushed" via ssh to my backuppc/ssh file server. Should I have a catastrophic hardware failure (we all do some times) I have a clonezilla image from the previous Sunday morning to automatically (for the most part) re-create the machine on a new hard drive (my last hardware failure situation.) Then, depending on what day of week it is, I can restore the remainder with BackupPC. Now, for those who will ask detail question about this, I have condensed my description to simplify the answer. My suggestion is that you need to learn about clonezilla live cd and use it to create this bare metal image. I have found this to be a simple solution for my computers. (My daughter's laptop & desktop, my wife's company work laptop, as well as my laptop and desktop. BTW, my wife's company IT people what me to tell them how I can backup her laptop without loading any software onto it, company policy and all. When I mentioned 'live cd' the IT people said, "ok, no problem.") -- Bob Wooden Nashville, TN "Enjoying life at my best!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
