I've done bare-metal restores from backuppc several times. It works very well with a Linux target.
- your original backup should take all of /, except for /proc/*, /sys/* and probably /tmp/*, /var/tmp/*, and whatever else you don't care about restoring (/var/cache/apt/archives/*, /var/log/*, etc). - when you have bare metal to restore to: -- boot with Knoppix or some other live CD. -- partition your disk -- set up a netcat listener that pipes its output to tar, ready to unpack the data on disk. -- on the BackupPC server side, use BackupPC_tarCreate to generate a tar stream, pipe it through gzip and then to netcat, which sends it across the network to the target machine. -- once your data is back on the target, use grub-install to fix up the bootloader. you should now be able to boot your machine again, with all the data on your backup. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
