hi ya robert...
havent had any problems using linux to backup windoze boxes...
( even if they had illegal linux filename chars that is allowed in windows
windoze files names like:
"Tom's special excel spread sheet"
dd is NOT reliable...if the original disks has a bad block at 12345 on the
master disk...
and if the backup disk has a bad block at 24680 than your backup copy
will be missing some data at 24680 that was valid on the original disks
- yeah..with todays disks... it might not be a problem...
but you will find the problem when its not an acceptable backup
solution for the one tidbit of data you couldnt afford to lose
c ya
alvin
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Robert Waldner wrote:
>
> >> -- backups for Win98 can be done similarly...
> >> - need to have samba installed on the linux box...
> >> and test that you can see the windoze shares
> >> - backup the windoze boxes from the backupserver itself
>
> Ok, so you can backup win9x-boxen, but what about other windos´s? The
> only *reliable* way I´ve found so far is tomsrtbt and a dd of the disk..
>
