Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows bare metal restore

2009-11-29 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Bob Weber wrote at about 13:23:55 -0500 on Thursday, November 26, 2009: > I have cloned Windows systems (win 2k to XP) by using sysrescucd. What is sysrescucd? > First I would use ntfsresize to re-size the file system to the > smalist disk I would restore to. This is not necessary if you wil

Re: [BackupPC-users] decompressing the backuppc pool

2009-11-29 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 05:27:45PM +0100, Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: > I'm planning to move my backuppc data directory onto ZFS. I will let ZFS > do the compression (and deduplication) for me, so I want to make sure > that the cpool stores only the plain files, not altered in any way. > > Is the

Re: [BackupPC-users] __TOPDIR__ and $Conf{TopDir}

2009-11-29 Thread Koen Vermeer
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 23:32 +0100, Koen Vermeer wrote: > What exactly is the difference between __TOPDIR__ and $Conf{TopDir}? It > seems the former one is set at compile time, while the other is clearly > a configuration file option, but how do these work combined? For > example, many of the instru

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows bare metal restore

2009-11-29 Thread Leen Besselink
Hi, (only just now discovered this thread) > I read about ntbackup of systemstate a while back. But I seem to > recall that one of the key things it backs up are the registry hives > which I do with shadow copy. So I wonder what the 'systemstate' adds > to a full shadow copy (plus full subinacl a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows bare metal restore

2009-11-29 Thread Bob Weber
*...Bob* On 11/29/2009 05:28 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Bob Weber wrote at about 13:23:55 -0500 on Thursday, November 26, 2009: > I have cloned Windows systems (win 2k to XP) by using sysrescucd. What is sysrescucd? > First I would use ntfsresize to re-size the file system to the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows bare metal restore

2009-11-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Bob Weber wrote: > >> If I am mistaken, I would be interested in knowing what part of an NTFS is >> not >> copyable by just using ntfsclone (and any sources for additional info >> would be most helpful.) >> > ntfsclone apparently copies the entire file system correctly since I > assume that i