> > Le dimanche 25 octobre 2009 05:14:14, James Harper a écrit : > > 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 :) > > Would be nice, but it's a terribly difficult reverse engineering process....
I haven't done much investigating yet, but I believe that the magic code that currently retrieves the file data from the BackupRead (windows backup api) stream just searches until it finds the right stream. Ntfs-3g can get and set raw ACL data which I believe is in one of the BackupRead streams already. Ditto for the ADS's. Not sure about NTFS Attributes and DOS filename though. > > > 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? > > Do you think that it's possible to have a windows xp guest installed on > VirtualBox or KVM on your linux boot disk ? It will work almost everywhere, > and it will solve the architecture problem. Yes, I have considered that too. It has the following drawbacks: . Licensing issues. Maybe this is a non-issue if the user builds their own boot cd from original media but Microsoft are a bit funny about OEM media. . Non-trivial to set up (I have attempted this before :) . Not all current hardware supports the virtualisation extensions required to make Windows work. 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
