Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring complete virtualized Windows-Servers / Saving MBR

2012-04-16 Thread hansbkk
Yes, I see BackupPC as a solution for what I call data archive backups, as opposed to full host bare-metal. For the latter wrt physical machines I tend to do relatively infrequent image snapshots of the boot and system partitions, keeping frequently-changing working data on separate partitions,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring complete virtualized Windows-Servers / Saving MBR

2012-04-16 Thread Andreas Piening
Hi Jim, I think I was not able to make myself perfectly clear: I don't use virtual disk images. I use LVM-Volumes instead (you can think of them as partitions that are presented as block devices to ma virtual machines). One thing you stated about doing virtual disk image backups is that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring complete virtualized Windows-Servers / Saving MBR

2012-04-16 Thread Andreas Piening
Hi, thank you for your response. At the moment I don't use disk images. Instead I use LVM volumes which are directly connected to my KVM-machines. There is a way like creating images of the LVM volumes with a image tool like partimage. These images would be compressed like 50GB in combined

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring complete virtualized Windows-Servers / Saving MBR

2012-04-16 Thread hansbkk
Two completely separate backup schemes are needed here. One for full cold-metal restores of the boot/OS level stuff, and IMO this is best done with imaging style software, in your case specifically targeted for windoze/ntfs systems. These don't need to be done very frequently, as little is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring complete virtualized Windows-Servers / Saving MBR

2012-04-16 Thread Gerald Brandt
Hi, I use BackupPC for backups, and Urbackup for disaster recovery, imaging the boot drive only. BackupPC does the data drive. http://www.urbackup.org/ Gerald - Original Message - Two completely separate backup schemes are needed here. One for full cold-metal restores of the

[BackupPC-users] AUTO: Jamie Levett is out of the office. (returning 30/04/2012)

2012-04-16 Thread Jamie Levett
I am out of the office until 30/04/2012. I am away from the office at the moment I will respond to your mail on my return. Note: This is an automated response to your message Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring complete virtualized Windows-Servers / Saving MBR sent on 16/4/2012 11:20:30. This is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring complete virtualized Windows-Servers / Saving MBR

2012-04-16 Thread Tim Fletcher
On 16/04/12 11:50, Andreas Piening wrote: Hi, thank you for your response. At the moment I don't use disk images. Instead I use LVM volumes which are directly connected to my KVM-machines. There is a way like creating images of the LVM volumes with a image tool like partimage. These

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring complete virtualized Windows-Servers / Saving MBR

2012-04-16 Thread Carl Soderstrom
- Original Message - From: Andreas Piening andreas.pien...@gmail.com One thing you stated about doing virtual disk image backups is that they're huge. As soon as anything in the virtual machine changes, the complete image needs to be stored again to keep the image backup in sync.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring complete virtualized Windows-Servers / Saving MBR

2012-04-16 Thread Andreas Piening
Hi Gerald, urbackup is completely new to me. The features sounds exactly like what I need. The website and documentation doesn't look that evolved from the first sight, at least compared to backupPC. But I think I just need to try the software out: The setup looks easy and I think I can do a

[BackupPC-users] Had to reinstall

2012-04-16 Thread David Williams
I had a hard disc crash which basically messed up my /usr partition. So, I had to basically re-install Linux. This is just a home box but I have had BackupPC running on it for quite a while (years) and to be honest it just worked :) So, I reinstalled Linux and I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Had to reinstall

2012-04-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:55 PM, David Williams dwilli...@dtw-consulting.com wrote: I was able to mount my old hard drive that crashed and take a look at a few things.  I guess the first thing of note is that I am using the BackupPC_Admin.cgi script, so I believe that means a basic install.