Need some Backup Help

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 13:41 -0700, Richard Wilson wrote:
> All,
> 
> I have a Linux Workstation running Fedora Core 3 with a SCSI Tape Drive
> attached (a very nice DLT 3 drive that was being excessed by my
> company...)
> 
> I want to use it to back up my XP laptop and thought it would be a
> simple case of sharing the C drive using Samba and then any decent Linux
> backup utility... I had a tar working until it hit C:\WINDOWS and took a
> permission failure...
> 
> I had shared the entire C drive, (read only) and was using an ID with
> admin privs on the XP system... but no, Uncle Bill wants to protect me
> against the folly of sharing \WINDOWS....
> 
> Is there another approach I can take, one that perhaps might make the
> tape drive appear local to the XP system?  I am no Samba expert, but am
> willing to try.
> 
> Or are there some other tools that this list can recommend?
> 
> I really want a clean backup of the XP system -- I plan on
> repartitioning it so I can install Linux and dual boot; but the open
> source tools I have for repartitioning (Gnu PartEd) don't guarantee
> results...
> 
> Thanks in advance, 
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a full backup isn't going to let you do a 'bare metal' restore.

Suggest bacula

http://bacula.org/

Craig