-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Les Mikesell wrote: > Pedro M. S. Oliveira wrote: >> Hi've written a little how to on my blog about: >> Using a recover CD to restore a backup made with BackupPC - BackupPC as >> disaster recovery >> http://www.linux-geex.com/?p=163 >> I'm thinking in making a boot cd to restore all the backuppc data to a new >> machine, does any1 has suggestions about this? > > Another approach that is especially handy for windows clients is to > periodically make clonezilla images of their boot drives that you can > restore to get to a point where you can reload the more current data > from backuppc.
One approach I've been testing is to do a fresh install of Windows 2003 SBE onto the server up to the point where all the system files have been installed I think it is the second reboot. Then take an image of it with partimage and save it for future use. When you want to restore the machine, you just use partimage to restore the original fresh install system, then restore over that all the files from backuppc (using VSS version of rsync to take backups, so it includes open files). So far, this seems to be working really well, the only thing that needs to be done is re-activate the new install within a few days, but other than that, it all works perfectly. BTW, the HDD is in the same machine as backuppc, so I have a small script which runs on the backuppc machine which restores with partimage, mounts the drive locally, restores the files from backuppc using Backuppc_tarcreate (I think) and then umounts ready to remove the backuppc boot drive and boot into the windows server environment. Regards, Adam -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkqRKe8ACgkQGyoxogrTyiV9/wCgyvGSNr3TujStC2in8aB4kYOh +GYAnRBiWqKjMGPXZdOJLr7Dh3vdA1CP =QB+C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
