[Novalug] Quick & Dirty Backup Solution?

[Jon Taimanglo]

I've used xxcopy (http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm) to backup windows
before and it worked fine (quick glance for restore:
http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy40.htm).  The only reason I would suggest
a straight windows application is due to the fact that you said you
would be writing to an NTFS share - I believe (and anyone correct me
on this), that NTFS writing is still experimental in Linux.

On 11/8/06, Matt Bidwell <bidwell at dead-city.org> wrote:
> 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
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