On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 05:52:26PM +0200, Marcus Hardt wrote: > [..] > > > I think it does the basic permissions that map to unix > > equivalents. It doesn't preserve acls, nor does it have any way > > to work around the existing ones - so you may have files that > > you can read in the backups but can't write back over the > > existing copy > > Right. There might be files already the image restoration done in > an earlier step. > > > Would s.th. like this work: > > 1: Restore an half year old image, using dd (for partition table and MBR's > sake) > 2; Mount it > 3: "rm -rf" it > 4: Copy the backup > > Or would this kill the windows installation at some point?
0.o I really don't think that would work. The big thing here is that you *can't modify open files in Windows*. That includes all of the system libraries. This is probably the source of a lot of your trouble. So you can't rm -rf the OS (and even if you could, yes, everything would break as soon as you hit the wrong library). It sounds like you're trying to restore the Windows *OS*, rather than just the data. This strikes me as a very bad idea. Install the OS normally, and restore just the data files. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/