Author: Craig White Date: Subject: ~ick~ There goes the neighborhood!
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 17:48, Kevin wrote: > 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... snip > 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)? ----
I typically use Norton Ghost for this but I think there are open source
solutions for this.