On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 12:37:09PM +0200, Elazar Leibovich wrote:
There's a PCI card called Magiccard[1] which is recoverring one of your
harddrive's partitions after each period of time or manually. The main use of
that is
to back up a windows partition, and make ruining it impossible.
I'd like to immitate it on software. My plan is to
divide the harddrives into three partitions
windows, backup and linux, on the MBR we'll install Lilo,grub or such
First we'd make a backup of windows to backup using, say,
partimage. Now, when loading the linux you'll be fronted with an option to
restore backup
or to update backup.
The problem is dates. I'm not aware of any way to cause a LILO or grub
choosing an OS
using some condition (IE date, a file's content in a partition). Also I'm not
aware of
any way to load windows after linux is loaded. I think I can handle patching
grub or lilo
to do as I command, if someone would give me a brief pointers. I'll release
this mini-project
to the public if it'll be of managable form.
I am not sure what I suggest is worth it for a single workstation.
What we did in tau is boot from the network, with PXE or etherboot
loading pxegrub/nbgrub, and grub loading its conf from the network too.
This way you can schedule on the dhcp server automatic changing of the
conf file etc.
You can, BTW, boot a small initrd from the network that does the backup
or restore, and won't need to install linux locally, if that's the only
use for it. Also if you have a fast network keep the image there. In
short, using the network greatly enhances your options.
--
Didi
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