A year or two ago I was pondering about the best way to restore a Windows system to 'bare metal'. BartPE is kind of nice for XP and 2003, but is fairly specific on what platforms it supports, is legally questionable if you are using OEM licenses, and in order to restore an XP system you need access to files from Windows 2003 etc. I then looked at what would be involved in booting Linux (via CD/USB/netboot/etc) and then restoring that way. At the time though, the ACL's, ownership, and a whole load of other stuff would be missing so there didn't seem to be much point pursuing it.
The latest 'Advanced' release of ntfs-3g supports direct access to the ACL's, ADS's, NTFS Attributes, DOS filenames (eg the 8.3 filename equivalent of the Windows filename), datestamps, and possibly EFS too. So in theory, it would be possible to extend processWin32BackupAPIBlock to not only write out the regular file data, but also to write out the ACL's, ADS's, etc etc. I don't even think it would be that much work... although I've been famously wrong about such things before :) The advantage of doing it this way is that you can have a single bare metal image to restore Linux and Windows systems. The disadvantage is that restoring to a different hardware platform where different boot drivers are required is a difficult but solvable problem under a BartPE boot but much harder under a Linux system. Anyone else had the same idea before? James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
