[Linux-disciples] Backing up Windows machines

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Another possibility is that I'd buy an external hard-disk
> enclosure, and burn from the source hard drive directly to
> the destination hard drive, without the intervening step of
> the DVD. Then if a hard disk failed, I wouldn't even have to
> restore from the DVD.

This would be a lot easier. I'm pretty sure dd won't handle multi-DVD
backups without some additional frontend package.

Sometimes Windows doesn't like it if it discovers a new HD geometry on
boot-up.  So your replacement hard drive, if not identical to the
original, might not work.  Or it might.  You'd probably want to
experiment with it now so you don't have to find out at the time of failure.

There are also a gajillion backup packages, many of which work with
Windows and may handle the multiple DVD thing gracefully.  I don't have
experience with any other than rdiff-backup, though, which isn't what
you want for this situation.
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