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can backuppc be used a a resuce method. starting from
a wiped hard drive? restoring windows XP?

Thanks

Joe Vanderstelt

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On 04/02 01:11 , Joe Vanderstelt wrote:
can backuppc be used a a resuce method. starting from
a wiped hard drive? restoring windows XP?

short answer:
yes

long answer:
you need a bootable rescue/utility system (like Knoppix or BBC), to transfer
the files over to the new disk; and some way to rewrite the bootloader (and
winXP seems to have something like that on the rescue-utils on its install
CD, tho I've never successfully used it).

Carl Soderstrom.
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Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
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On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 15:11, Joe Vanderstelt wrote:
can backuppc be used a a resuce method. starting from
a wiped hard drive? restoring windows XP?

I've done it with Linux, booting a machine with a knoppix CD, then
doing the fdisk/mkfs to get matching partitions and mounting them
by hand, then ssh'ing the commands to the backuppc server to generate
a tar image, piped to a local copy of tar.

I don't think this is possible with windows. You'd have to reinstall
enough of the system to be able to restore files and you'll lose
the registry along with ownership and permissions of the files.

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Am Freitag, 2. April 2004 23:11 schrieb Joe Vanderstelt:
can backuppc be used a a resuce method. starting from
a wiped hard drive? restoring windows XP?

Thanks

Joe Vanderstelt

AFAIK : NO.

Use disk imaging tool like Acronis True Image.

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Thanks, do you know of any open source app that can
handle it?

--- Les Mikesell <les < at > futuresource.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 15:11, Joe Vanderstelt wrote:
can backuppc be used a a resuce method. starting
from
a wiped hard drive? restoring windows XP?

I've done it with Linux, booting a machine with a
knoppix CD, then
doing the fdisk/mkfs to get matching partitions and
mounting them
by hand, then ssh'ing the commands to the backuppc
server to generate
a tar image, piped to a local copy of tar.

I don't think this is possible with windows. You'd
have to reinstall
enough of the system to be able to restore files and
you'll lose
the registry along with ownership and permissions of
the files.

---
Les Mikesell
les < at > futuresource.com




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On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 19:58, Joe Vanderstelt wrote:
Thanks, do you know of any open source app that can
handle it?

There are http://www.partimage.org/ and
http://g4l.networks-ltd.de/ that do full partition image
copies. However you have to boot linux on the machine
while making the copy and you have to restore to the
same size partition. They don't know enough about NTFS
to resize or skip the unused parts. If possible, use
the commercial Norton (Symantec) Ghost program instead
for NTFS images. For a brute-force approach you can
boot a linux CD like Knoppix and copy the entire raw
disk into a compressed image over the network but then
you have to restore to exactly the same sized drive.

---
Les Mikesell
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Thank you vary much.

--- Les Mikesell <les < at > futuresource.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 19:58, Joe Vanderstelt wrote:
Thanks, do you know of any open source app that
can
handle it?

There are http://www.partimage.org/ and
http://g4l.networks-ltd.de/ that do full partition
image
copies. However you have to boot linux on the
machine
while making the copy and you have to restore to the
same size partition. They don't know enough about
NTFS
to resize or skip the unused parts. If possible,
use
the commercial Norton (Symantec) Ghost program
instead
for NTFS images. For a brute-force approach you can
boot a linux CD like Knoppix and copy the entire raw
disk into a compressed image over the network but
then
you have to restore to exactly the same sized drive.

---
Les Mikesell
les < at > futuresource.com




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