Re: [BackupPC-users] Boot drive failure recovery options?

2014-12-31 Thread Ed Willis
On 12/31/2014 9:30 AM, John Rouillard wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:30:43PM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote: On Tuesday, December 30, 2014, Ed Willis ewil...@jesande.com wrote: Is there a way to restore my latest full backup using the Windows machines I've got handy? If you first install

Re: [BackupPC-users] Boot drive failure recovery options?

2014-12-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Ed Willis ewil...@jesande.com wrote: On 12/31/2014 9:30 AM, John Rouillard wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:30:43PM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote: On Tuesday, December 30, 2014, Ed Willis ewil...@jesande.com wrote: Is there a way to restore my latest full backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Boot drive failure recovery options?

2014-12-31 Thread Ed Willis
Hmmm - I haven't gotten this far yet (it's a pile of work really - is there a need for a stand-alone utility for unarchiving BackupPC archives perhaps?) but I'm wondering about the degree to which I'll need to replicate the original configuration of BackupPC in order to get either

[BackupPC-users] Boot drive failure recovery options?

2014-12-30 Thread Ed Willis
Howdy all, I've got a hard disk which I used previously for BackupPC storage which I'd like to restore data from. The original configuration was on Fedora but the drive the boot partition and OS were on has failed - so all I've got is the drive I designated for backups. That one I can read

Re: [BackupPC-users] Boot drive failure recovery options?

2014-12-30 Thread Craig Barratt
On Tuesday, December 30, 2014, Ed Willis ewil...@jesande.com wrote: Is there a way to restore my latest full backup using the Windows machines I've got handy? If you first install cygwin (including perl and gcc), you should be able to install the necessary perl modules and then BackupPC from