Before I start hacking away on myself, maybe there's a ready-to-rock package I don't know about:
Need a backup for a computer illiterate (pushing 70, has desktop icons that link to google, searches for company.com there and clicks the first hit instead of typing company.com into the url bar). Recently his Win XP bought the farm, no way of rescueing, tried to ressurect an old save point but no matter who I asked or what I did, seems you can only revert to a save point when you have a halfway running system on disk. Thanks MS. Now, to prevent such situations in the future, I installed Linux in the last part of the disk and gave printed instructions on how to make a backup of Windows. Includes a rough script I hacked up, needs touchup anyway. dd's the win part thru gzip and splits it basically. What I'd like a lot more was two GRUB entries "save windows" and "restore windows" and they should ask about where to/from save/restore, scan for external usb disks etc etc. Is there something like that already or is it bash hacking time? Dex -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a- C++++ UL++ P+>++ L+++>++++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++) tv--(+)@ b++(+++) DI+++ D- G++ e* h>++ r* y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.stop1984.com http://www.againsttcpa.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
