~ick~ There goes the neighborhood!

I need advice from the list!

If there *must* be a wormdows box on my network to support some horrible
win32 apps, what is the best way to backup it's hard disk image? I need
to be able to restore it to a known good state every time (weekly) it
gets...

...hacked/infected
...broken by bad installers
...hung/blue-screened
...generally-unresponsive
...infested with adware/spyware
...forgetful of it's own attached hardware
...insert favorite affliction here

~Ick~ Just thinking about it makes me want to shower.

And, NO, I can't run the apps in vmware on a linux box. Too many stupid
hardware dependencies. I've tried many, many times.


Can I keep the disk image on my Linux or OpenBSD server and PXE boot the
wormdows box? Restoring it would mean simply overwriting the bad disk
image with a known-good copy. I have no idea if this is feasible.

Can I boot the wormdows box with a linux floppy or CD and mount the win
partition and `dd` it to my file server for safe keeping (after all the
apps are installed, but before any Lusers touch it)?

How would you do it?

...Kevin