On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Gregory Siems wrote:
> I am attempting to implement a means of performing bare metal recovery
> of the Linux boxes under my care. To do this I have a script that tars
> up the files and creates scripts for restoring the partitioning, boot
> loader, etc. The idea being that if I have a bootable Linux distribution
> (i.e. Knoppix) and the backup then I could bare metal restore the backed
> up system.

Not to answer your question directly, but have you tried using Mondo? It's 
a full-featured restore utilitity just like what you describe.

http://www.mondorescue.org/

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