What about a three-phased approach:
1. Install fresh version of windows.
2. Restore all files on it.
3. Restore the locally saved 'system state'.
Would this work?
"dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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 <<a
>href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>> wrote:
><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt
>0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"> 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" <<a target="_blank"
>href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>> 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.<blockquote
>>style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt
>>0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">> 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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