A cursory glance at ntfsclone's man page (available at
http://man.linux-ntfs.org/ntfsclone.8.html) states that ntfsclone deals
exclusively with the filesystem, and not with the bootloader at all. If you
were trying this on a brand new drive in the case of a hard drive failure,
you'd be dead in the water til you wrote to the bootloader.
Regardless the technique you describe is not a bare-metal restore since you
are using two steps instead of one.
A working strategy would be to do a fresh install (from a prepared image,
preferably) and restore the files via tarball (or the Knoppix liveCD if you
don't have GNU util capabilites on the machine).
Adios,
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Kurt Tunkko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul, Carl,
>
> thanks for the helpful answers.
>
> I see the problem restoring a windows client, but wouldn't it be
> possible to make a bare metal restore with 3 steps:
>
> 1) doing a bare-metal-restore with an image that has been created
> without backuppc but ntfsclone. This would restore the bootloader and
> the operating system
>
> 2) booting the client with a Linux Live CD and mounting its harddrive.
>
> 3) using tar (over ssh/or netcat) to write the backup from backuppc to
> the mounted harddrive on the client.
>
>
>
>
> just an idea?!
>
> - Kurt
>
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