Dr. Poo wrote:
Now, can you think of a way to sync the win 2000 OS? (the
WHOLE flippin'system) so that if it were to go down
one could restore the full installation
Once upon a time, I used Windows's own backup program to grab its
SystemState [registry, etc] to a file every day and then
Dr. Poo wrote:
Now, can you think of a way to sync the win 2000 OS? (the WHOLE flippin'
system) so that if it were to go down one could restore the full installation
(bootstraps, bootloader, ect!!?) by means of the rsync'ed backup.
please? thank you. ;-)
Yeah. Symantec Ghost.
*runs*
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 21:13, John Morgan Salomon wrote:
Dr. Poo wrote:
Now, can you think of a way to sync the win 2000 OS? (the WHOLE flippin'
system) so that if it were to go down one could restore the full installation
(bootstraps, bootloader, ect!!?) by means of the rsync'ed
That's actaully a good idea! and sooo simple. right? Just sync (backup) the
important and functional data... not the whole OS..because EVERYONE has the
original copy of the windows software used when the software was
installed Which all that can then be restored if need be. DUH! and the
Watch out for pagefile.sys (i think!)... it's won't copy. (let me know about
any other's)
Most important files won't copy. The registry files are locked and
can't be read by rsync/cygin (nor are they served by smb).
Similarly, the outlook.pst file used by Outlook (which contains all
the
Craig Barratt wrote:
Watch out for pagefile.sys (i think!)... it's won't copy. (let me know about
any other's)
Most important files won't copy. The registry files are locked and
can't be read by rsync/cygin (nor are they served by smb).
Similarly, the outlook.pst file used by Outlook (which
Steve--
I (unfortunately) have this setup--rsynching FreeBSD boxes to a Windows
2000 machine. The Win2k box is my Veritas BackupExec server, and I
don't have a local tape drive for the BSDs.
I was unsuccessful getting either rsync or sshd to work as services
under cygwin/cygrunsrv, but
I mount the windows (98,ME,NT,2000, XP, ECT!) box with samba and go BOOM!
rsync that baby from localhost:/mnt/win2000 or where ever the smbfs lies...
Watch out for pagefile.sys (i think!)... it's won't copy. (let me know about
any other's)
Now, can you think of a way to sync the win 2000
I'm rsyncing over ssh to unix servers now am wondering what people who
use rsync for their unix boxes do when dealing with win 2000/NT machines?
Steve Mallett
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