one thing that you need to keep in mind is that windows needs more that just
the visible files to boot. You must also pull a copy of the MBR or have
some way of installing a new MBR for a restore to be successful.
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Achim J. Latz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> Hello Dan:
>
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 19:03:23 -0700, dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> This is effectively what happens in Project Cuba:
>
> 1/ connect to the host to be backed up,
> 2/ make a shadow copy for the various shares (using Microsoft vshadow.exe
> for now)
> 3/ start rsyncd on the shadow copy,
> 4/ and start the backup.
>
> I hope to be able to share these pre/post scripts with you in the very near
> future.
>
> Best regards, Achim
>
>
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