> > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jan Boshoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > I just had a thought and would like to probe the great minds of this > > list. Would anyone do a disaster recovery type of restore of a Winbox > > that was backed up using smbclient? I'm currently backing up the > > complete winbox, but it occured to me that I don't know how I would > > restore if something happened to the Winbox that we needed to restore > > the complete drive. I mean, you need to have Win installed for > > smbclient to talk to it accross the network. > > Well, my method is, err, non-standard to say the least, but it's *very* nice... None of my users run Windows natively (well, OK, one does, but he's the boss). They all run Windows in VMware on Linux. All user data is kept on their Linux partitions (which Windows/VMware can see transparently), and backed up via standard Amanda. The "C" drive for the Windows "boxes" is a 700MB file (for Win2K -- 400MB for NT4) that I keep a copy of on our RAID. When a Windows "box" hoses itself, a complete reinstall is a 80 second 'cp' away. :) Oh, and did I mention that the Windows "boxes" can't see the net at large, and so are largely safe from the fun of virus infections? It won't work for everybody, and VMware (the company) is getting annoyingly inflexible about their licensing terms and fees, but it does work *very* well for us. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
