G.W. Haywood wrote at about 14:04:10 +0000 on Wednesday, February 19, 2025: > Hi there, > > On Wed, 19 Feb 2025, Matthias@ wrote: > > > I running BackuPC V4.4 for managing some Windows PCs with rsync. > > In restoring of ACLs something seems to be wrong. > > ... > > ... > > Is it a feature based on differences between Windows and POSIX and > > can't be solved or do I something wrong? > > Even when I supported Windows networks (not for a few years now), I > have never restored anything other than lost or corrupted data files > for users who have been running computers otherwise working normally. > > So I haven't looked into the sort of issues you're meeting. Having > said that I've seen any number of people talking about the problems > they've had trying to do what is effectively a 'bare metal' restore, > and I've concluded that with BackupPC as distributed it's impossible. > After all it isn't really possible with Linux either, you need to put > a working system on the client before you can even fetch an archive > from the BackupPC server... > > There are probably many threads both on this list and elsewhere which > talk about the Windows/NTFS issues, here is the first one I found: > > https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/backuppc-users/thread/4b12edc7.7090...@gmail.com/ > > There's quite a lot of food for thought in that one thread, but I'm > sure that it would be useful to search for more. > > > The restored application is running. So maybe my issue isn't a issue. > > :) >
@Matthias that is one of the threads I was referring to in my reply where the OP discussed his method based on elements of my approach. BTW, I stopped backing up Windows ACL and system files a long time ago -- it just wasn't worth it due to the complexity and uncertainty if it would back up everything needed at a bare-metal level restore. Instead, I just back up Windows data files now and occasionally (too occasionally) use 'clonezilla' _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
