looking for windows (w2k) backup solution

[Rick DeNatale]

On 1/17/06, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Rick DeNatale wrote:
>
> > If you're looking for incremental/daily backups I can recommend
> > backuppc which I use to do daily backups of both my wife's windows
> > machine
>
> after a windows crash, and starting from a formatted but
> otherwise blank harddisk, how do you restore your windows
> machine? Do you run the client on linux with the new disk
> mounted under linux? If so, then the disk would have to be
> VFAT for linux to be able to write to it.
>
> There are some files on windows that don't get copied with
> copy or xcopy and this is the reason you use ghost. Do you
> know if backuppc handles those?

No, as someone already pointed out, backuppc is good for backing up
data files. I'm mostly interested in making sure that we have backups
of things like quicken data, her digital photos, etc. You'd also want
to have one or more ghost images.

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Rick DeNatale

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