At 15:58 25-02-2002 -0500, Jan Boshoff wrote: >Hi all > >I just had a thought and would like to probe the great minds of this >list. Would anyone do a disaster recovery type of restore of a Winbox >that was backed up using smbclient? I'm currently backing up the >complete winbox, but it occured to me that I don't know how I would >restore if something happened to the Winbox that we needed to restore >the complete drive. I mean, you need to have Win installed for >smbclient to talk to it accross the network. I have thought about but not yet implemented anything so be advised: This is thought-stuff ;)
Use a regular win98 (or perhaps toms rtbt) bootfloppy to partition and format filesystem (not NTFS - but you could convert to NTFS later). Use toms RTBT http://www.toms.net/rb/ to boot a micro linux and mount the filesystem with network support to retrive the image from the server. Toms RTBT has a small tar and gzip that could extract the image. Be sure to have the boot sector backuped up using dd (also on toms RTBT). As I said, not tested yet but I think it should work. If you test something like this please post your findings. best, Kasper
