Re: [BackupPC-users] Bear Metal Restore

2008-04-10 Thread Stephen Joyce
I have used Window's built-in ASR with good results. It backs up C:\, the system state, and if on a DC, data in AD. To recover, you use your Windows media and there's a prompt to press F2 to perform an ASR recovery. See http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/howto-18.html . For linux, I've al

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fedore 6

2008-04-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Jim Douglas wrote: > All, > > I installed BackUP pc with YUM on Fedora 6. I have a webserve on the > internet and want to configure so I can backup over the internet. > > Can someone tell me how to configure the "hosts" file? Do you have the web interface set up so you can authenticate as

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc_zipCreate

2008-04-10 Thread Daniel Denson
wikified Daniel Denson wrote: > I'm feeling a bit dumb about Backuppc_zipCreate but I finally figured > it out. Some people have figured it out on the mailing list but never > put it in a really coherent statement so I thought i'd drop this > tidbit on everyone > > Backuppc_zipCreate -h host -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bear Metal Restore

2008-04-10 Thread Gene Cooper
I have found PBA to be simple and useful. After using it for some time, I even set up the client to PXE boot off the network. http://canned-os.blogspot.com/2006/12/personal-backup-appliance-getting.html G Les Mikesell wrote: > Bernhard Ott wrote: > >> as Andreas said before bare metal restore

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scaling BackupPC

2008-04-10 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:48:33AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > I know I'm coming into this thread way late, but I think this could be > fairly easily managed using a master/slave setup (similar to what MythTV > offers). BackupPC could default to being a "master", but you could > optionally set i

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scaling BackupPC

2008-04-10 Thread Rob Owens
I know I'm coming into this thread way late, but I think this could be fairly easily managed using a master/slave setup (similar to what MythTV offers). BackupPC could default to being a "master", but you could optionally set it as "slave" and then define its master. The master handles all th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fedore 6

2008-04-10 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Jim Douglas wrote: > I installed BackUP pc with YUM on Fedora 6. I have a webserve on > the internet and want to configure so I can backup over the internet. Are you aware that Fedora Core 6 has reached EOL? https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-November/msg0.html >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Large file stalls backup

2008-04-10 Thread David Birnbaum
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Adam Goryachev wrote: >> Does anyone have a workaround or fix for this? Is it possible to change >> BackupPC so it doesn't remove the in-progress file, but instead copies it >> into >> the pool so rsync will pick up where it left off last time? There doesn't >> seem >> to

[BackupPC-users] Fedore 6

2008-04-10 Thread Jim Douglas
All, I installed BackUP pc with YUM on Fedora 6. I have a webserve on the internet and want to configure so I can backup over the internet. Can someone tell me how to configure the "hosts" file? Where do I specify the destination? Thanks, Jim > > Actually, it's a Linux/Apache webserv

[BackupPC-users] Backing-up local files

2008-04-10 Thread Ib H. Rasmussen
Hi all, I have recently installed BackupPC version 3.1.0 on my Fedora FC8 server. I can make backups of external clients using ssh/rsync without problems. Now I would like to backup a local (on the server) directory using 'tar' To ensure all files can be accessed, the 'tar' should run as

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup full WinXX System(-Image)

2008-04-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Stefan Mosleitner wrote: > Hi! > > Is there any possibility (with any client-software?) to make full system > images from windows clients? > Yes, http://www.clonezilla.org/ is a good one. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bear Metal Restore

2008-04-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Bernhard Ott wrote: > as Andreas said before bare metal restore is not the thing you can do > best with backuppc, so many folks around here use backuppc for data and > other products for imaging system-partitions. > I use partimage for cloning windows hosts (careful: it doesn't work on > amd64

[BackupPC-users] Backup full WinXX System(-Image)

2008-04-10 Thread Stefan Mosleitner
Hi! Is there any possibility (with any client-software?) to make full system images from windows clients? ___ Jetzt neu! Schützen Sie Ihren PC mit McAfee und WEB.DE. 30 Tage kostenlos testen. http://www.pc-sicherheit.web.de/start

[BackupPC-users] Bear Metal Restore

2008-04-10 Thread cpreston
You'll find complete coverage of bare metal recovery for Linux/Windows in this free chapter from my book: http://www.backupcentral.com/components/com_mambowiki/index.php/Linux_%26_Windows_Bare_Metal_Recovery +-- |This was sent

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bear Metal Restore

2008-04-10 Thread Bernhard Ott
Hi Jack, as Andreas said before bare metal restore is not the thing you can do best with backuppc, so many folks around here use backuppc for data and other products for imaging system-partitions. I use partimage for cloning windows hosts (careful: it doesn't work on amd64 platform, http://www.p

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bear Metal Restore

2008-04-10 Thread Andreas Micklei
Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2008 schrieb Jack: > I would like to be able to do a 'bear metal restore' for both Linux and > Windows. The easiest thing is probably using BackupPC for data recovery only and use a separate product for desaster recovery of the base system (excluding user data). For Win