On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM Christian Völker via BackupPC-users
<backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> But to be honest what I haven't tested up to now is a full restore of a
> Linux box...
Since backuppc doesn't do bare metal restores, it is always a good
exercise to go through the motions of getting at least a virtual
machine to a point where you can restore to it. Then maybe do an
'rsync -an' between the source machine and and look through the list
of files that are different. A long time ago I toyed with the idea
of setting up something automatic using ReaR to make a bootable image
for disaster recovery and using backuppc as the restore method but
never got farther than being able to do it manually. Conceptually
there should be a way to rebuild the ReaR image after OS updates - or
on a schedule, and have backuppc include it in the backed-up contents
for the host. That way you could do a complete restore by extracting
that image file to a USB, booting from it, and then using rsync or tar
restore methods to put everything else back.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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