Unfortunately these have to run on bare metal, due to the number of drivers involved, which leads to driver dependency hell, which is pretty much why I care about this backup.
On Dec 21, 2017 9:57 PM, "George Skorup" <george.sko...@cbcast.com> wrote: > Can you run VMs for the stuff you need to control/do? Run VMs on those > stations and replicate the storage to somewhere else? Then they're always > backed up. > > On 12/21/2017 10:29 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: > > So, clonezilla seems to be 'reboot into this tool and take an image'. Is > this correct? > > I'm definitely not opposed to this idea, probably actually better than the > 'make an image from the running windows box' option. I can then use a > standard backup tool for the day to day (file) backup operations. > > Mainly what I'm worried about backing up is all of the nightmarish driver > installation and configuration which goes along with using a PC to control > hardware. And then on an ongoing basis 'operational programs', but those > are more traditional files which a normal backup would grab. > > > > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> +1 on Clonezilla. >> >> >> ------ Original Message ------ >> From: "Brian Webster" <i...@wirelessmapping.com> >> To: af@afmug.com >> Sent: 12/21/2017 11:18:30 PM >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Computer Image backup/restore >> >> I have used Clonezilla with good success. They have a live CD version you >> can burn the image, Linux based and free. >> >> >> >> Thank You, >> >> Brian Webster >> >> www.wirelessmapping.com >> >> www.Broadband-Mapping.com >> >> >> >> *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Forrest >> Christian (List Account) >> *Sent:* Thursday, December 21, 2017 11:07 PM >> *To:* af >> *Subject:* [AFMUG] Computer Image backup/restore >> >> >> >> Normally backups around here are file-based, I.E. I want to make sure I >> don't lose data. >> >> >> >> I have a couple of computers now which I really would hate to have to >> rebuild due to hardware failure. These are generally computers which run a >> machine, such as the automatic test system and the pick and place machine. >> These machines area all typically single-drive (non-mirrored) mostly off >> the shelf hardware running various versions of windows. I'd like to take >> a full image, and have at least a reasonable chance of putting it back on >> similar hardware (probably same motherboard, maybe different storage >> medium) and it just work. >> >> >> >> It used to be that the tool for this was Norton Ghost. But that's been >> discontinued (and I understand it was going downhill before that). So I'm >> looking for whatever the current modern version is. >> >> >> >> I know there's a few tools out there which do this (Macrium, Acronis, >> etc). But the reviews are all littered with failures. Unfortunately >> it's hard to tell how much of this is lack of clue and how much of this is >> broken software. >> >> >> >> I'm wondering if anyone has experience with using these modern >> equivalents? Preferably something which runs on a range of Windows OS'es, >> and can dump the image onto NAS. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> *Forrest Christian* *CEO, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc.* >> >> Tel: 406-449-3345 <%28406%29%20449-3345> | Address: 3577 Countryside >> Road, Helena, MT 59602 >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=3577+Countryside+Road,+Helena,+MT+59602&entry=gmail&source=g> >> >> forre...@imach.com | http://www.packetflux.com >> >> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/fwchristian> >> <http://facebook.com/packetflux> <http://twitter.com/@packetflux> >> >> > > > -- > *Forrest Christian* *CEO**, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc.* > Tel: 406-449-3345 | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602 > <https://maps.google.com/?q=3577+Countryside+Road,+Helena,+MT+59602&entry=gmail&source=g> > forre...@imach.com | http://www.packetflux.com > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/fwchristian> <http://facebook.com/packetflux> > <http://twitter.com/@packetflux> > > >
