It might be possible, but I've never tried it. Personally, I would reinstall all of the software from original media, then copy over the data files.
-- Eric. On Nov 21, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Satria Anamarta <[email protected]> wrote: > 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! > > _______________________________________________ > Dirvish mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
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