[Novalug] Quick & Dirty Backup Solution

[Craig Pennington]

Look into ntfsclone, part of the ntfsprogs suite (found here: <
http://man.linux-ntfs.org/>). Had a knoppix CD that I had remastered for
just this purpose a while back. Worked like a charm.

On 11/8/06, jlg <goldsmithj at yahoo.com> 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)
>
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