From: Jef Knoors ([email protected])
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 08:10:37 CEST
Please explain step 1 for me.
"DOSLFNBK /all C:\" --- is this a command ?
What about the hidden files, the regestry and al that stuff ?
What is the disk is compressed with windoze drivespace ?
All the other stuff seams cler to me.
Jef
----- Original Message -----
From: Sven Conrad <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: muLinux base floppy image and DOS tools
> Hi all
>
> dd for crash recovery? In my opinion, this is far too restrictive, slow
> ...
>
> - you are copying all trash
> - you are copying all disk organisation information and gaps
> - you can not access single files
> - you can not change disks, partitions, size or what ever
> - dd access is without cashing and so very slow
> ....
>
> My crash backup for windoze looks like this:
>
> 1. make under dos/windoze a "DOSLFNBK /all C:\"
> (or what drive you ever want)
> 2. mount this under linux as msdos! (not vfat)
> (e.g. mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt)
> 3. tar & zip this dir
> (e.g. gtar -czf /tmp/crashwin /mnt)
>
> 4. save bootsector with
> (dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/tmp/crashboot.bin count=1)
>
> /* possibilities: */
>
> - if you make a windoze boot disk, you can after syscrash make
> "format /s c:" on every new/old/other disk you want!
>
>
> - you can access every file (over it's short name)
>
> - you can recover windoze just from linux by reverse the bachup steps
> (caution: format the partition first to get a clean fs)
> (restoring the bootsector is rarly necessary, and beware that bootsec
> contains partition dependant info)
>
> - easy cloning of windoze install
>
> I'am using this "free" backup for long time and it's working well.
> One thing I often did is copying a installation to a new (bigger) disk
> without this 2 days reinstallation desaster.
>
> may be this is a idea for others too
>
> /sven
>
>
>
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