in theory you could restore a windows install this way BUT the windows boot
load may be corrupt and would need a "fdisk /mbr" run from an NTFS aware DOS
prompt or something similar, which cant be done with backuppc. also,
windows can be a real pain to bring back to life after any kind of system
disk issue and backuppc is no where near ready to deal with the complexities
of a borked windows.
i would suggest instead that you make a ghost image(or Partimage) of the
windows drive in question when it is setup to your satisfaction. that way
you can restore the system to a certain state and then push the backuppc
restored files onto the system. if you do a routine settings backup to
somewhere that backuppc is grabbing, you can restore the image, push the
backup files to the client, then restore the system settings and you will
have a fixed system
On Nov 19, 2007 8:51 AM, Gene Horodecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Whoa.. I'll definitely exclude the pagefile.sys and c:\windows. Good tip.
>
> Is there truly no way to restore a windows client though? I mean, it's
> not the end of the world because Windows needs a fresh install every so
> often anyway, but if you really needed to surely there would be a way to do
> it.
>
> What if one used an ntbackup to backup the 'windows system state' and keep
> it locally in a flat file on the client.. Then back up this flat file with
> the rest of the backuppc backup.....
>
> I like your idea to omit program files except sometimes people tend to
> save data files with the programs. I know I keep everything in my
> documents... But on my wife's laptop, who knows where things could be!
>
>
> "dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> since you will not be able to restore a windows system from the backuppc
> backups then i would suggest the following folders to exclude
>
> c:program files
> c:windows
> c:temp
>
> also exclude the file
>
> c:pagefile.sys (this is your swap file, no point in backup it up.
> probably over a gig!)
>
> ***
>
> i would suggest you not even try to backup the C: but instead backup
> "Documents and Settings" and any special directories off of c:. i do
> c:documents and settings and c:downloads and c:scripts. i run some bash
> scripts via cygwin on a few machines. I ONLY put the 'docs and settings' in
> the default config file and add the other folders in the individual config
> files so i dont get the errors for missing shares on a bunch of machines
> without a downloads or a scripts share.
>
> > > Is there a list of recomanded windows folders to exclude
> > > in order to get a successful full backup??
> >
> > I don't use Windoze, so I don't know. There have been suggestions on the
> > list previously.
>
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