On Dec 29, 2010, at 7:36 PM, Ryan Blake wrote:
> Now that I finally got backups working as they should, I have ran into a
> problem. Right now we have a machine that has a great deal of problems
> (drivers missing, programs are installed that we do not know how they got
> there, etc.) and I was hoping to be able to restore using the rsync protocol.
I've not paid a lot of attentiont to this thread so pardon me if I'm repeating
anything but..
I've never done restores using rsync, I always use tar.
briefly:
* boot the target system with some kind of rescue CD
* use BackupPC_tarCreate to create a stream of files in tar format from
whichever backup you choose
* pipe that through netcat to your target system
* unpack the files on the target system by piping the output of netcat to tar
The problem with Windows of course is the registry. I've not tried a full
restore of a Windows box; but I know it would not be easy. Even if you can
rewrite the Windows bootloader and make it work, it will not necessarily have a
consistent registry, so application installations may be broken anyway.
--
Carl Soderstrom
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