On 11/07/12 00:12, Michael Stowe wrote:
>> The Windows 7 Junctions (which fail) are important directories in Windows
>> XP, and I've made an effort to exclude all the junctions from Windows 7.
> Huh. XP doesn't have any junction points by default (although it supports
> them) so I guess you mean you're excluding 7 junctions like "Documents and
> Settings" instead of backing them up.
>
> We just back them up here, because it's simpler and hey, who wants to
> recreate 50 junction points manually? Then again, we also back up the
> registries and open files, since those are important to us. We only
> exclude cache and temp directories, as I recall, and have had the
> horrifying occasion to perform full restores.
Could I ask what is your process for a full restore on a windows PC?
I recently considered to do a complete restore from backuppc for a
windows 2003 server which had been backed up using your method, but
ended up resolving the issue without the restore. However, I wasn't very
confident that I would get a working system from a restore.
In the past, I've had some success with taking a snapshot using dd or
similar, just after doing the OS install (before the first reboot) and
then doing a full restore from backuppc (taken with shadow support), and
this did produce a working system, but it isn't always easy to have an
image of a machine, so would be great to be able to just use the
backuppc to do a full restore.
Regards,
Adam
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