THIS IS THE UPCOMMING RESTORE DESCRIPTION.  A CONCEPTUAL PAPER.
Note that you will need Poseidon for this!  Poseidon currently
does not exist, as I am working on it.

Assumptions:

dial-up.provider.at.eu is your location in Europe.
this.computer.is.ko.us is the computer located in America.
scylla-charybdis.ok.au is the backup server located in Australia.
You don't want to fly to America nor Australia to get the restore
done.  All you have are some "remote hands" at both locations.

Prerequisites:

1) (See README.backup for more information how to get this:)
1a) You have the backup of this.computer.is.ko.us done with S&C
1b) The backup image is stored /somewhere in scylla-charybdis.ok.au
1b) The backup contains the output of "odysseus / >/tmp/ody.out"
1c) The backup and the run of odysseus are near time.

2) (You can download a Knoppix ISO image at http://www.knoppix.de/ )
2a) this.computer.is.ko.us was booted with Knoppix from CD-ROM.
2b) The Knoppix Networking was enabled (perhaps by the remote hands)
2c) SSH-Server was started on this.computer.is.ko.us
2d) You can successfully do a ssh knoppix@this.computer.is.ko.us
2e) You have a command shell on scylla-charybdis.ok.au
2f) scylla-charybdis.ok.au can reach this.computer.is.ko.us via Internet

3) You have all tools in place
3a) There is a precompiled scylla runnable under Knoppix
3b) You have a scylla.pem to make SSL work
3c) scylla-charybdis.ok.au has all S&C-tools reachable in PATH
3d) You know how to use your brain

Process description for the lazy admin:

Shell 1:

scp `which poseidon scylla` /etc/scylla.pem knoppix@this.computer.is.ko.us:
ssh knoppix@this.computer.is.ko.us
su -
fdisk
# partition your drives
mke2fs -j /dev/hda1
# Be sure the drives have the capacity to take the backup
mkdir /restore
mount /dev/hda1 /restore
# mount all your drive structure under the temporary "root" /restore
screen
tcpserver -a 999 /home/knoppix/scylla /restore PASSWORD /home/knoppix/scylla.pem &


Shell 2:

ssh scylla-charybdis.ok.au
cd /somewhere
screen
# Let poseidon dump the working file list
poseidon tmp/ody.out |
while ! charybdis this.computer.is.ko.us 999 PASSWORD -
do
	sleep 1
done

Now wait until all data is transferred.
This can take quite some time.
If some timeout error occurs while running charybdis,
just restart the last commando (lines from posseidon.. to ..done)
a couple of times until nothing is transferred any more.
Then do following:


Shell 1:

cd /restore
# Let poseidon create all non-regular files
/home/knoppix/poseidon -y tmp/ody.out
# Now all you have to do is to reconfigure your bootloader
# If the filesystem layout has changed be sure to
# edit /restore/etc/fstab prior to following:
chroot /restore
/sbin/lilo
reboot

Before doing the last step pay close attention to what posseidon
said.  There might be some files missing or be out of sync with
the output of odysseus.  Fix this manually.

It might be that you can as well use a RedHat install floppy to get
the restore done, however tcpserver is missing there, so you need some
more binaries to get this ready.  Note that I already have plans to
create a minimum rescue system which will support S&C, off course.
It will provide an on demand created minimal floppy image for any
system configuration (such no more missing modules), which will then
download the rest via internet, and alternatively it will fit
completely on either an USB stick or a "business card style CD-ROM".

Note that there are no more basic steps you need to do as seen above.
The only thing you need to know is how to setup the filesystems.
If you don't know how to do this, S&C probably is not for you (yet).
S&C is thought as "the easy way to backup your server keeping full
control about everything but don't bother about any data transport".
It's only suited for admins who know what they are doing and want to
be at charge, always.

Like me ;)

-Tino
PS: scylla, charybdis, odysseus all have a y. poseidon has -y ;)