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I had a hard drive crash last week on my Windows machine, and thanks to
backuppc, I was able to restore with (almost) no problems. Regretfully,
the most recent backup was apparently incomplete, and some folders were
empty. So, I restored from a previous backup, and commenced spot-restoring
those few files that had changed since then. While in that process, my
Linux backuppc box also suffered a hardware failure! When it rains, it
pours! I believe that the backuppc backup files are intact, but now I only
have a Windows machine to access them. So my question is: if I move the
backuppc hard disk to my Windows box, can I access the backuppc backups
with Windows? This poses two challenges:

1. Can I read the drive's ext3 file system in Windows?

2. Can I access the backuppc backup data in Windows? (yes, I have cygwin)

Thanks in advance!

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On 07/06 06:42 , David Smith wrote:
1. Can I read the drive's ext3 file system in Windows?

there are a couple of tools out there, which will let you browse an ext3
filesystem from Windows. I've never tried them, tho.

2. Can I access the backuppc backup data in Windows? (yes, I have cygwin)

Craig would be the person to answer this.
even if the files are uncompressed, the file metadata is stored in a special
way; so you might still need the backuppc tools to recover them.

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"David Smith" writes:

I had a hard drive crash last week on my Windows machine, and thanks to
backuppc, I was able to restore with (almost) no problems. Regretfully,
the most recent backup was apparently incomplete, and some folders were
empty. So, I restored from a previous backup, and commenced spot-restoring
those few files that had changed since then. While in that process, my
Linux backuppc box also suffered a hardware failure! When it rains, it
pours! I believe that the backuppc backup files are intact, but now I only
have a Windows machine to access them. So my question is: if I move the
backuppc hard disk to my Windows box, can I access the backuppc backups
with Windows? This poses two challenges:

1. Can I read the drive's ext3 file system in Windows?

Not sure about that.

2. Can I access the backuppc backup data in Windows? (yes, I have cygwin)

Assuming the ext3 file system is accessible, and particularly that
the long file names and hardlinks work correctly, you can install
BackupPC under Cygwin. In fact, I use this setup for doing a lot
of my development on a WinXX laptop. Then you could either do
the restore using the apache web interface (also under cygwin),
or run BackupPC_zipCreate manually.

All-in-all, it would be much better to get your linux machine
up and running first.

Craig


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<quote who="Craig Barratt">
"David Smith" writes:

1. Can I read the drive's ext3 file system in Windows?

Not sure about that.

I've got read-only access to my ext3 drive using ext2ifs-0.3. Seems to
work pretty well, though slow.

2. Can I access the backuppc backup data in Windows? (yes, I have
cygwin)

Assuming the ext3 file system is accessible, and particularly that
the long file names and hardlinks work correctly, you can install
BackupPC under Cygwin. In fact, I use this setup for doing a lot
of my development on a WinXX laptop. Then you could either do
the restore using the apache web interface (also under cygwin),
or run BackupPC_zipCreate manually.

Are there any special instructions for installing BackupPC under Cygwin?

All-in-all, it would be much better to get your linux machine
up and running first.

Believe me: I wish that were an option.

Thanks for the help!

--Dave


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On 07/07 10:38 , David Smith wrote:
All-in-all, it would be much better to get your linux machine
up and running first.

Believe me: I wish that were an option.

what about booting with Knoppix? either just using the kernel off the
Knoppix CD, and setting root=<your HDD>; or booting to knoppix commandline,
then chroot'ing to the HDD?

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<quote who="Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom">
On 07/07 10:38 , David Smith wrote:
All-in-all, it would be much better to get your linux machine
up and running first.

Believe me: I wish that were an option.

what about booting with Knoppix? either just using the kernel off the
Knoppix CD, and setting root=<your HDD>; or booting to knoppix
commandline,
then chroot'ing to the HDD?

The machine on which I would boot Knoppix is the same machine to which I
need to restore the files. The partition is NTFS.

I am currently attempting to run CoLinux on the WinXP box and I just
apt-get installed backuppc. We shall see how it works. Looks promising so
far.

--Dave


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On 07/08 08:35 , David Smith wrote:
The machine on which I would boot Knoppix is the same machine to which I
need to restore the files. The partition is NTFS.

I am currently attempting to run CoLinux on the WinXP box and I just
apt-get installed backuppc. We shall see how it works. Looks promising so
far.

cool.

if that fails; just try restoring the files to some free space on the linux
HDD (using knoppix), then read them off the drive from Windows (using your
ext3 utility).

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