your question is also interesting for me, and I add this topic to favorits for track it.
we can mount image and copy to new hdd by dd, etc,but have no practice for that way
or mount .vhdz to VM and restore from
now I’m use:
as example 2 pcs laptops A,B - next sequence -
replace one of existing img by any needed:
- A - instal empty instance of UrB server,
program dir at c:\ and backup dir on removable hdd u:\ - B - install client, and connect to new UrB
2.1 dump image of B
thats create new img dir, some img files inside, and rows about them in UrB srv database, links, etc… - copy one of image dir from failed UrB server to backup dir for B
- rename dir with fresh img as B_original (UrB-srv-service no need even stop)
- rename target-machine-to-restore (from failed UrB) img dir
exactly as B img dir, and all files inside as B-files, for links consistency. - restore that new img of Z on “B” by live-cd 2.1.1
(you will see all names and dates for fresh B img,
because database knows nothing about replacement of img files)
So, I have:
- “mobile server” for disaster recovery some images from removable,
(UrB-srv can be also VM at yor laptop with mounted usb-hdd) - “offline” recovery of remote client - I mean non internet etc - peer-2-peer LAN only on site
I’m very want some features on restore cd - dump images from that cd environment - for failed machines, backup before any my changes, and local restore from image on local hdd without any network
but not yet (
bad english, sorry!