Thanks! That's what I thought - anything that would do a byte for byte copy/image of the hard drive would work.
Worst case scenario is I lose the license and have to buy another. Greg On Jun 3, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Philip Dorr wrote: > If downtime is a option the you can boot the system of a live Linux > distro and make a DD backup of the HDD. > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Greg Ihnen <os10ru...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I've googled and searched and can't find an answer to this. I posted to the >> MT forum, but I thought I'd try here too. Thanks! >> >> I would like to know if it's possible to back up the entire RouterOS install >> including the license on an x86 installation. I have a computer on which I >> was using for RouterOS but have swapped it out for an RB750. I want to use >> the computer for other things (perhaps Astaro or Untangle) but I don't want >> to lose the RouterOS license, and I would also like to have the computer >> ready to go back in service with RouterOS should the RB750 fail (I lost one >> to lightning before adding lightning protection). Understand I am not trying >> to pirate RouterOS or do anything which is contrary to the terms of the >> license. I just want to use the machine for something else, with the >> possibility of reverting back to RouterOS if the RB750 which replaced it >> should fail. If I didn't live in the jungle of South America I'd run down to >> Best Buy and pick up another SATA hard drive and use that for the other OS. >> But I only have one drive so I'm looking at imaging the drive with RouterOS >> on it and keep tha >> t image safe so I can use the hard drive for something else. Should this >> work? Any advice would be appreciated. >> >> Greg >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
