Matthias Meyer wrote: > 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. > > br > Matthias
Interesting. I thought that rsync is no worse than using e.g., tar in the case of nothing to compare to. Do you think rsync is actually worse (slower)? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ 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/