looking for windows (w2k) backup solution

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:

> Joe,

> If you might be backing it up from a Linux bootable CD, 
> and want a free built in solution, you could try to just 
> do a dd (disk to disk) copy.

This is what I'm doing now - boot into linux and dd the 
windows partition. Restore works fine. The problem is that 
it's slow and you have to save the whole partition 
(including the empty space). With the cost of disks being 
low, the space is not a great problem, but it is slow.

Joe

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