Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 04/04 07:40 , Neal Becker wrote: >> Are there instructions for using backuppc for bare metal restore? > > Probably somewhere. It's fairly straightforward tho. > > Boot the bare-metal machine with Knoppix (or your choice of rescue disks). > Partition and format the drives. > Mount the partitions in the arrangement you want. (you'll have to make some > directories in order to have mount points). > > Set up a listening netcat process to pipe to tar. will look something like: > netcat -l -p 8888|tar -xpv -C /path/to/mounted/empty/filesystems > > on the BackupPC server, become the backuppc user > (Presuming it's a Debian box) run '/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate > -n <backup number> -h <hostname> -s <sharename> <path to files to be > restored> | netcat <bare-metal machine> 8888' > > the 'backup number' can be '-1' for the most recent version. > > An example of the BackupPC_tarCreate command might be: > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -n -1 -h target.example.com -s / > / | netcat target.example.com 8888 >
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