On Monday 22 December 2003 17:48, Kevin wrote:
> I need advice from the list!
>
> If there *must* be a wormdows box on my network to support some horribl=
e
> win32 apps, what is the best way to backup it's hard disk image? I nee=
d
> 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 stupi=
d
> hardware dependencies. I've tried many, many times.
>
>
> Can I keep the disk image on my Linux or OpenBSD server and PXE boot th=
e
> 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
>
>
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Take a look at g4u (freshmeat.net). I use it to make an image copy o=
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disk drive (OS independent, could be Windows, Linux, whatever) and, via t=
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network, store it on another machine. A bootable floppy can later be used=
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suck the image back across the network and restore the disk.
g4u works well for my needs.
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Ed Skinner,
ed@flat5.net,
http://www.flat5.net/
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