looking for windows (w2k) backup solution

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Brian Henning wrote:

thanks everyone for telling me about g4u.

It seems to be a dd type backup.

> Anyway, yeah, definitely look at section 5.10.  Defrag, 
> empty recycle bin (including Norton Protected, if it 
> exists..  that one has snuck up on me), delete temp files, 
> etc. and run nullfile

nullfile eh. I hadn't thought of that for windows ;-\ On 
linux I fill my disks with zeroes with a cronjob every 
month, just so old stuff isn't left lying around.

since I'm already running dd and have successfully saved and 
restored, I think the easiest thing would be to nullfile my 
windows partition first, boot into linux, dd the windows 
partition to my linux backup disk, and then gz the resulting 
dd file.

About a month ago I asked here about mounting dd's of whole 
disks and extracting partitions from them. That was fun.
I'm glad disks are cheap now.

Thanks Joe

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