Neal Becker wrote: > 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 >> > > Thanks. > > Would there be a similar procedure using rsync? > rsync wouldn't be a good solution in this szenario. You don't have any data on the client. So rsync wouldn't find anything to compare with. Because that - other solutions, like tar, are smarter because faster.
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