John Pettitt wrote: > Both are problematic. A full backup means getting windows registry > hives which mean some sort of open file manager or snapshot driver is > needed - as far as I know there are no open source ofm products.
There is Elias' patched rsync with VSS [1], I have not used this myself yet but it looks good. You could even make an initial image using DriveImageXML [2] and then run BackupPC fulls and incrementals on top (inevitable data duplication). I've used this to clone a running WinXP and the results were encouraging, it was able to get all files normally locked, and the resulting restore to a sister machine worked. [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/6906 [2] http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm > Putting the data back means reconstructing the filesystem - support in > Linux/FreeBSD for NTFS is not good and as far as I'm aware BackupPC does > not capture all of the extended access control file attributes. > > John > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
