[Novalug] Quick & Dirty Backup Solution?

[Matt Bidwell]

jlg wrote:
> Greetings:
>  
> I'm in a lab environment and have serveral HP DL[35]80 servers with 
> Winders 2003 server on them.  I have a need to backup these boxes with 
> little muss and fuss.  I'd use ghost but some knucklehead has lost the 
> media.  My thought is boot a Linux CD on the box in question and the dd 
> the windows partitions to another windows server (ie NTFS share).  
> Doable?  I'm open to suggestions.  I need something that *will* work and 
> *will* restore.
> This should be considered  a "one off".
>  
> Thanks much.
>  
> ...jlg (jim)
> 
Would you consider G4L, aka Ghost4Linux.  It will probably do what
you want it to.  You burn the ISO onto a CD and boot it up.  From
there you can ftp a gzip'ed image of your computer.

Matt