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On 7/20/07, Dexter Filmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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?
I remember reading somewhere that someone did this with Mondo Rescue
(http://www.mondorescue.org/). I can't find it online now, but the guy
did something similar.
If I remember correctly, it was in a corporate environment, and he
created a small partition at the end of the drive, where he stored the
Windows image (created by Mondo Rescue). Then he had it setup where
you booted into the partition and the restore ran, making it easy for
the technically challenged to use.
From the Mondo Rescue Howto:
Mondo Rescue is a Disaster Recovery Solution which allows you to
effortlessly backup and interactively restore Linux, Windows and other
supported filesystem partitions to/from CD/DVD-+R/RW media, tape, NFS,
... and Mindi Linux provides the bootable emergency restore CD/floppy
set which Mondo uses at boot-time.
Menachem
Dex
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