<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Have you considered Windows Backup (comes with windows 7/8)? The latest version is very featureful and I'm pretty sure, but could be mistaken, that it can do baremetal restore.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Dan Ritter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dsr-bblisa@randomstring.org" target="_blank">dsr-bblisa@randomstring.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have five or six Windows machines hanging around; it would be<br>
nice to provide a decent backup option.<br>
<br>
What qualifies as decent?<br>
<br>
- a full backup can be restored to bare metal<br>
- a partial restore can be handled by the user<br>
- there's an installable client (as opposed to "compile six<br>
things and ship a copy of MS VC++ library 6.7f")<br>
<br>
We have a nice Linux system that provides backup to Time<br>
Machine users very smoothly, including pretending that they each<br>
have 200GB volumes without requiring funky loopback workarounds.<br>
<br>
It would be very nice to do the same with SAMBA for the Windows<br>
clients, but I have not been able to make this work. It appears<br>
from googling that everyone who has has been setting the home<br>
dirs of the backup client users to 777...<br>
<br>
-dsr-<br>
<br>
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