On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 08:30:33AM -0400, Kevin Flanagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > I don't have a floppy drive in the system, or a tape drive. It's a > Compaq Ipaq Desktop. If I could create an ISO that had everything that > the reinstall floppy has, and the data that a tape backup has, then > lay the data on after restoring that it should be a good backup scenario.
Yep, sounds good. You'll have to do a fresh install, followed by a recovery of the config data from CD, then the user data. > That also has the advantage of being random access, if you want one > file, just mount the disc, and get it. Sure. I'm actually very interested in DVD-RW backup, since you can probably get over ~10GByte compressed. Gordon -- Gordon Rowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director, Engineering Network Server Solutions Group http://www.e-smith.com Mitel Networks Corporation http://www.mitel.com -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
