Hi Les,
using a outdated image for restoring and "manually" copying things over is not
an option for me. The Server is a domain-controller with several profiles,
running two databases and have proprietary software installed that relies on
registry settings and all that silly stuff.
I don't see another chance then using a nightly created image atm and I can
live with space-waste, no pooling and heavy IO but I just want this in-file
incremental rsync to work as expected because the only thing that breaks it is
that I can't transfer 80 GB of data through a DSL50 line every night. This
would exceed the time-window I have for the backup.
Thank you anyways,
Andreas
Am 14.05.2012 um 05:32 schrieb Les Mikesell:
> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Andreas Piening
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Les,
>>
>> excuse my floppy frase: Real time recovery is not what I'm looking for. I
>> ment I want to be able to get the system into a workable state simply by
>> downloading and restoring from an image. If I need to manually assemble the
>> system disk from a file based backup and fiddle around with a non-bootable
>> and hard to debug windows server that's not a solution for me. Repairing a
>> broken windows installation is an extremely time consuming pain compared to
>> react on some "file not found" or "wrong path" error messages from a
>> linux-os which directly leads to the problem.
>>
>> I understand your concept with restoring a (not necessary up-to-date) image
>> and doing a file based restore on top, but I have never tried this and don't
>> feel so comfortable with this.
>
> I don't put the images (clonezilla or VM files) into backuppc at all.
> The copies just work as they usually do. And once they are running,
> you just have the same process you would have if someone deleted
> something accidentally to bring the files back from backuppc.
>
>> Please can you tell me more concrete about the windows-version you did this
>> with and did you use the "normal" ntfs file-system driver or ntfs-3g while
>> doing the file-based "overlay" restore?
>
> I don't do an overlay restore. Just smb or rsync.
>
>> How often have you done this successfully or better have you ever had
>> problems with file permissions, lost attributes or anything else? Or have
>> you done additional steps for getting the system drive bootable again?
>
> The (possibly outdated, but complete) VM image or clonezilla backup
> will boot. The windows systems I back up are either single-purpose
> application servers where I know how to reinstall that app if needed,
> or generic file servers where there isn't much windows magic. There
> are more complex windows servers in the company where it might be
> important to track frequent registry changes and program updates, but
> someone else manages them, probably with proprietary programs. If I
> had to do those, I'd probably at least use the volume shadow copy
> tools during the backup.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> [email protected]
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