Hi Eric, I've read about tb-rsync-vss just now. >From what I'm understand: to do a bare metal restore on Win7, could I say that it's enough by install a fresh Win7 and then restore the latest dirvish backup that created before using tb-rsync-vss ?
Thanks :-) On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Satria Anamarta <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Eric V. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 11/21/2012 02:24 AM, Satria Anamarta wrote: >> > Hello, >> > Greeting from new member and a super newbie of Dirvish :-) >> > Welcome! >> > > Thanks, Eric :-) > >> >> > I would like to setup a Windows 7 as a client, so I download and install >> > HardBackup from Itefix. As this step I'm confuse. Where should I start? >> > Should I configure master.conf on this Windows 7 machine or not since >> > the master.conf already configured in the FreeBSD (server) machine? Is >> > HardBackup assume this Windows machine will act as a server? Should I >> > install SSH server in this Windows 7 machine for it to backup >> > automatically without asking for password? >> >> I've never heard of HardBackup, so I can't help there. Taking a quick >> look at it, it doesn't seem to address the problem of backing up open >> files on Windows. >> >> Here's my story on using dirvish on Windows: >> http://trueblade.com/techblog/backing-up-windows-computers-with-dirvish > > > Hey, I visited this url few days ago! > And now I'm email with the author, great! > > >> I wrote a Windows executable (tb-rsync-vss) to deal with the Windows >> Volume Snapshot Service (VSS). See the above blog post for the history >> behind it. It's in use daily on a number of machines, including Windows >> instances in Amazon's EC2 cloud. >> >> For details on how it works and how to configure it, see the bitbucket >> page: >> https://bitbucket.org/ericvsmith/tb-rsync-vss >> >> It's all open source (Apache License 2.0). >> > > Ok, I'm going to visit it and hope it can suit for my situation... and > most important: it's not to hard to configure :-D > >> >> > Sorry for my poor english, I hope somebody here understand what I'm >> > trying to say :D >> > > >> Not a problem at all: you're very clear. And your English is better than >> my <anything else>! >> > > Well, it is entertaining :-D > >> >> Good luck. >> Eric. >> > > Thanks a lot, Eric! > >
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