I would say that if you have a good backup from day 1, you would simply
restore that backup and have all the benefits of a fresh install. we need a
tool that will run rsync against shadowcopy so that you could get every file
on the system so that a restore would be possible.
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Rob Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> > It seems to me like a shame that there hasn't been more interest and
> > effort in getting BackupPC working better on Windoze because now it
> > really is only useful for limited user file backups. Without
> > proper treatment of the registry, ACLs, and all the other details of
> > NTFS, I wouldn't want to rely on BackupPC to restore system-level files
> > or even executable programs. This means that I still need to do
> > occasional full disk clones which typically require manual
> > intervention (unless you buy commercial software) and take up lots of
> > space since they don't offer the pooling functionality.
> >
> I think the going theory (my theory, anyway) is that if a Windows system
> crashes, you might as well use the opportunity to do a fresh install.
> Windows seems to need that once in a while anyway. Maybe your
> experience is different, but I find that Windows generally has "aging
> problems". It behaves worse and worse over time.
>
> -Rob
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