> Michael Stowe wrote at about 15:00:06 -0600 on Monday, March 8, 2010:
> > > Your method does allow for the most recent (more or less) snapshot of
> most
> > > of the relevant windoz files but doing an image every so often would
> > > essentially do the same thing.
> >
> > To clarify a bit:
Michael Stowe wrote at about 15:00:06 -0600 on Monday, March 8, 2010:
> > Your method does allow for the most recent (more or less) snapshot of most
> > of the relevant windoz files but doing an image every so often would
> > essentially do the same thing.
>
> To clarify a bit: it allows for
> Perhaps I missed something in reading this, or my interpretation of a
> 'bare metal restore' is different from yours.
I use the term "bare metal" in the sense that when the process is started,
there is no software or operating system installed. In other words, I'm
talking about the system being
Perhaps I missed something in reading this, or my interpretation of a 'bare
metal restore' is different from yours.
My definition of 'bare metal restore' is taking essentially an image of the
current disk, copying it to some media, and then using that image to do a
bit-by-bit (sector-by-sector, tr
Michael Stowe wrote at about 10:40:04 -0600 on Monday, March 8, 2010:
> > On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Michael Stowe wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Out of necessity, I had an opportunity to try out restoring a system
> >> from
> >> scratch with nothing but BackupPC backups. I'm happy to report that the
> >> p
> Although I haven't tested it on a bare metal restore, I believe that
> my code that runs subinacl (and also optionally getfacl) to back up
> the Windows ACL's should take care of all file ownership, permissions,
> and ACLs (note that 'getfacl' only captures a subset of the full
> Windows acl's).
> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Michael Stowe wrote:
>
>>
>> Out of necessity, I had an opportunity to try out restoring a system
>> from
>> scratch with nothing but BackupPC backups. I'm happy to report that the
>> process works, with a few limitations and quirks.
>>
>> I've documented it here:
>>
>> http:
Out of necessity, I had an opportunity to try out restoring a system from
scratch with nothing but BackupPC backups. I'm happy to report that the
process works, with a few limitations and quirks.
I've documented it here:
http://www.goodjobsucking.com/?p=219
