Re: network backup advice - windoze

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya robert...

havent had any problems using linux to backup windoze boxes...
( even if they had illegal linux filename chars that is allowed in windows

windoze files names like:
	"Tom's special excel spread sheet"


dd is NOT reliable...if the original disks has a bad block at 12345 on the
master disk...
and if the backup disk has a bad block at 24680  than your backup copy
will be missing some data  at 24680 that was valid on the original disks
	- yeah..with todays disks... it might not be a problem...
	but you will find the problem when its not an acceptable backup
	solution for the one tidbit of data you couldnt afford to lose

c ya
alvin

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Robert Waldner wrote:

> 
> >> -- backups for Win98 can be done similarly...
> >> 	- need to have samba installed on the linux box...
> >> 	and test that you can see the windoze shares
> >> 	- backup the windoze boxes from the backupserver itself
> 
> Ok, so you can backup win9x-boxen, but what about other windos´s? The 
>  only *reliable* way I´ve found so far is tomsrtbt and a dd of the disk..
>