Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc

[Kurt T. <kur...@we...>]

Hi,

Ray Todd Stevens wrote:
 > [...]  I have had to do a couple of bare metal
> restores and backupPC was a big part of it.
> Step 1: have good documentation of the system configuration during 
> original install.
> Step 2: install the OS according to documentation
> Step 3: get the client running on the client.  This is ususally pretty streight 
> forward.
> Step 4: tell backup pc to basically restore everything 
> Step 5: reboot and you should be up just as the old system was.

That's what I would do also, with one modification: not starting at step 
1 but on step 3. Because I have full images (ntfsclone or dd) of the 
client I just write back the image, so that I don't have to configure 
everything for backuppc-restore on the client-pc (cygwin/rsyncd/exchange 
ssh-keys...)

A bare metal recovery of a windows client for testing is on my todo-list.

Question:
have you done a bare metal recovery of a windows client?

Without any background I would think that restoring a linux-based 
machine might work better but unfortunately I'm working in a 
windows-only-environment (except my file & backup-server :-)

- Kurt