Linux backup and restore server project- several particulars needed.

Charles Steinkuehler charles at steinkuehler.net
Mon Sep 17 15:25:27 CDT 2007


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Oren Beck wrote:
> First bite being a method of scripting the backups and archiving them.
> That means defining WHAT gets grabbed from where when etc rules and
> namespace conventions to make admin less painful. Since many windows
> users are schiziod in their file naming we have to be mindful of that.

I'm partial to partimage for system backups, which I use (combined with
the fairly minimal system rescue CD linux environment) to implement
windows imaging from bare metal (via PXE boot & NFS), from a 'rescue
partition' on the 'doze HDD, and from DVD.

I don't think the image files created by partimage can be directly
mounted, but making a read-only loop-back block driver doesn't seem like
it should be that difficult (he says naively, not having looked at the
image format).

> Second Bite being creating the restore method/s. Ranging from a web menu
> to ?

What exactly do you want to do?  I have scripts that run under Sysrescd
that image a windows system from bare-metal across the network
(including PXE boot) in fairly short order (less than 1 Min/GigB IIRC,
total time depends on the file-system size), but you don't get to resize
parititons or extract just the user data for some customized linux
win2lin migration thingy.

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Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net
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