On 1/6/07 9:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i've seen a number of solutions for backing up windows hosts to an
openbsd backup server. there are ~50 windows hosts to backup with an
average of ~10 GB of stuff on each machine. for my purposes a key
feature of such a solution is that it makes FULL backups of the
windows
hosts that can be used to replace faulty hard drives with working
bootable replacement drives.
It's very very very difficult to =guarantee= that without backing up
all those harddisks while Windows and all programs running on it are
put gracefully down. In general you can only make a really good backup
of a windows sysstem with the harddisk more or less taken out of that
system.
For example: rdisk copies on file level and if those files aren't
closed or synced by the programs that use them those files are
"broken" and you are just lucky if the broken state is OK to boot from it.
This problem has little to do with OpenBSD although I do hope with all
"hate" that's in me that once in the future OpenBSD will be the first
OS with a good database file system, that could solve the problem
above (provided all programs will use it etcetera), if well designed
the database managing program can provide proper backups on other
disks itself.
+++chefren
