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From: David Miller <david3d@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 21:51:14
Message-Id: 9fd973b60605021442i342b4c2cm10f5bdac17ee8933@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-( by Teresa and Dale
1 Partimage works pretty well although not exactly as you described. It
2 requires a linux server to serve the images I believe. There may be a way
3 to use a livecd of some sort to do it locally as you described.
4
5 Otherwise the not free/opensource solution is Norton Ghost.
6 --
7 David
8
9 On 5/2/06, Teresa and Dale <teendale@×××××××××××××.com> wrote:
10 >
11 > Hi,
12 >
13 > OK, here's my deal. My girlfriend wants to use windoze, yes it has
14 > already died from a bug and it took a while to get it all back to
15 > working, again. This is what I want to do to make it easy when this
16 > happens again, this is windoze so it will happen, likely sooner rather
17 > than later too.
18 >
19 > I want to be able to back her drive up to a CD, the whole thing even if
20 > it takes a few CDs. When it dies again, I want to be able to put in the
21 > first CD and it boot and reinstall everything from there with little
22 > interaction from me.
23 >
24 > Is there such a creature? Please tell me it is free. I'm used to Linux
25 > remember.
26 >
27 > I can't believe I let her spend almost $200.00 on that crappie OS. <
28 > hangs head in shame > She a great person in all other respects though.
29 > I just have to keep working on this area.
30 >
31 > Thanks
32 >
33 > Dale
34 > :-)
35 >
36 > Oh, I'm still looking for help with samba share so I can copy her
37 > documents and such to my rig, since mine seems to always work. :D
38 > Again, sorry to ask a windoze question here but it's not like I ask
39 > anywhere else.
40 > --
41 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
42 >
43 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-( Joe Menola <menola@×××××××××.net>