On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 12:37:09PM +0200, Elazar Leibovich wrote: > There's a PCI card called Magiccard[1] which is recoverring one of your > harddrive's partitions after each period of time or manually. The main use of > that is > to back up a windows partition, and make ruining it impossible. > I'd like to immitate it on software. My plan is to > divide the harddrives into three partitions > windows, backup and linux, on the MBR we'll install Lilo,grub or such > First we'd make a backup of windows to backup using, say, > partimage. Now, when loading the linux you'll be fronted with an option to > restore backup > or to update backup. > The problem is dates. I'm not aware of any way to cause a LILO or grub > choosing an OS > using some condition (IE date, a file's content in a partition). Also I'm not > aware of > any way to load windows after linux is loaded. I think I can handle patching > grub or lilo > to do as I command, if someone would give me a brief pointers. I'll release > this mini-project > to the public if it'll be of managable form.
I am not sure what I suggest is worth it for a single workstation. What we did in tau is boot from the network, with PXE or etherboot loading pxegrub/nbgrub, and grub loading its conf from the network too. This way you can schedule on the dhcp server automatic changing of the conf file etc. You can, BTW, boot a small initrd from the network that does the backup or restore, and won't need to install linux locally, if that's the only use for it. Also if you have a fast network keep the image there. In short, using the network greatly enhances your options. -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
