Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 02:18 pm, Teresa and Dale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> OK, here's my deal.  My girlfriend wants to use windoze, yes it has
> already died from a bug and it took a while to get it all back to
> working, again.  This is what I want to do to make it easy when this
> happens again, this is windoze so it will happen, likely sooner rather
> than later too.

I just make sure I don't do anything important on Windoze.  Then if it dies... 
oh well, worse things can happen at sea.

> I want to be able to back her drive up to a CD, the whole thing even if
> it takes a few CDs.  When it dies again, I want to be able to put in the
> first CD and it boot and reinstall everything from there with little
> interaction from me.
>
> Is there such a creature?  Please tell me it is free.  I'm used to Linux
> remember.

IBM/Lenovo has this neat little Rapid Restore thing which does exactly that.  
I'm not sure it'll work on a non-IBM machine, but it's worth a try.

> I can't believe I let her spend almost $200.00 on that crappie OS.  <
> hangs head in shame >  She a great person in all other respects though.
> I just have to keep working on this area.

Not everyone is a computer junkie ; )

> Oh, I'm still looking for help with samba share so I can copy her
> documents and such to my rig, since mine seems to always work.  :D
> Again, sorry to ask a windoze question here but it's not like I ask
> anywhere else.

Set up a Samba server...  hmm... KDE Control Centre has a excellent interface 
for that.  Very easy.

In a related story...

The first time I used Samba to do some network transfers I spent ten minutes 
checking file intergrity.  It went so darn fast... I was sure something was 
wrong.  No, it's just that windoze networking is so darn slow!  It's now a 
pain to do anything windoze-to-windoze!  Linux and Samba is so much faster!