[TriLUG] Your State of Practice for Backups?

[Alan Porter]

> How does backuppc handle the windoze registry?  Or does it?
>   

It backs up files that it has permissions to back up. On Windows 
systems, the backup is NOT suitable for restoring an entire image. The 
registry (and I think open Outlook mailboxes) are not copied. When we 
used it at "the oven place", we took that into account -- if we restored 
a Windows machine, we knew we would have to reinstall and then copy the 
"good bits" from BackupPC. For Linux, the backup is suitable for total 
system restoration.

Alan