On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Michael C. Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Clonezilla is interesting, but why use a usb flash key or CD when I have > a PXE server? Appears that I have stabilized my raid 0 volume. I am > experimenting with Linux's NTFS support and tar. If I don't go the dd > route, how can I restore the boot sector? One thought for XP is to do a > partial reinstall so that the boot sector gets created, PXE boot, and > then erasing whatever files exist on the XP partition restore from > backup. Using tar over dd, the backup speed seems to be slower. > However, I can back up less overall as I don't have to store empty > space. I guess the real question is, how safe is Linux's NTFS support > at this point? Can I safely write using a tar archive to an offline > NTFS partition (mounted in Linux, not in Windows)? > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >
The ntfs-3g module for NTFS read and write support is pretty good although I can't speak to the specific task you're trying to achieve. I'm not sure why you're wanting to use a PXE setup, it seems as if you're making this needlessly complicated but to each their own. If that setup works for you, then that's great. Something like live booting clonezilla just automates imaging the box to a remote filesystem and accomplishes the same task as dd'ing without wasting space copying empty blocks. Maybe others can chime in here about their backup and disaster recovery plans and layouts that might be something at least worth exploring. The more ideas the better. I use Norton Ghost to backup my Windows laptop and my parents laptop to an external drive and then keep a duplicate copy of the image on the NAS which is configured for RAID for extra redundancy [ although now that I've found this FOSS alternative I'm going to move to that ] . I sync my Linux box using SVN to a remote server I own that's co-located in a data center, I don't care about binaries just my personal project code and custom configuration files. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
