On Wednesday 27 July 2005 1:59 pm, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Neither of these will do bare-metal restores of windows clients, but > can save data files via samba - and with backuppc you have the option > of using rsync. > Which leads me to ask, is there any opensource software that WILL do bare metal restores? I currently use Acronis for a lot of backup chores in my Windows part of the world - it's using Linux in at least part of its operations, as one can easily see if one deliberately causes an error while booted from their CD recovery disc. I'm not sure what they're doing when they run backups while booted up in Windows, which they can do. They say that they will also backup Linux drives, but I haven't tried that. There's a huge Microsoft project ongoing to implement volume shadowing to enable live backup of all files, even those in use, and permit bare metal restores. But the company working closely with them on that project charges a lot for their software. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
