Michael Stowe wrote at about 20:17:18 -0600 on Monday, January 3, 2011: > You are correct, but if the registry is backed up to BackupPC (using VSS, > for example, since it's always open) then it can be restored consistently. > The trick is to unpack it in a different place than the registry in the > running OS, then switch over using the recovery console. (I do have > complete details, should you want them.) > > Like you, I recommend tar, although rsync can probably be made to work if > you don't try to restore to the original locations.
Couple of questions: - Does restoring the registry (actually it seems like there are multiple registries) restore all the detailed Windows ACL's and ssid stuff? - How do you handle junctions? My understanding is that cygwin sees directory junction as symbolic links. This is important because Win7 has a lot of important junctions to preserve compatibility with WinXP/2000 and I know for certain that Win7 doesn't work well when junctions are replaced by symbolic links - NTFS has various other non-POSIX features that are not translated by cygwin (and hence certainly not captured by rsync). One example is multiple file streams. Now I don't know if any of these other features are commonly used in Windows but I do think there is some type of Master Record that is used. In any case, what have you done to restore those items? - I guess more generally, have you succeeded in doing a bare metal restore of Window 7 (or even XP) or do you just do this to restore user files? If you are just restoring user files, I find that my script to record all the ACL's (not just the POSIX ones captured by getfacl) using subinacl is useful since I can then grep/sed against it to restore selected ACL's with individual files. Again, I don't have much experience in restoring windows so I would love to hear experiences from others who have done actual bare-metal or close to bare-metal restores of Windows systems (Yes, I shamefully admit that even though I have contributed a fair bit of coded to do shadow backups and backup ACL's, I haven't had the time or opportunity to really test it on bare-metal restores) Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ 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/
