At 21:12 04/23/2002 -0700, you wrote:
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 00:24:20 +0000, Tor Sigurdsson
thusly enscribed: You could using tar, but it won't preserve the DOS 'attributes'
True. Same (I assume) for cpio, etc.
You could also take a copy of your partition table ( dd if=/dev/hda \ of=backup.bin bs=512 count=2 skip=1 ) and use dd top copy the partitions ( dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/st0 bs=4096 # keep the blocksize the same as \ the optimal blocksize on tape )
Hmmm, right, guess if I restore to identically-sized partitions on the new drive, dd should work just fine. (Wish there was a version of dd that added CRC info; guess I'm just a bit paranoid.) Tnx for the partition table dd info - I knew how to do that on Sun SPARC systems, but not on PCs.
It would be nice, however, to have a backup that would allow selectively restoring files if I decide to do a clean installation of Windows on the new drive. Any ideas on that?
**************************************************************************** **** You can't do that, in general, because most Windows programs store stuff in the Registry. Since you would not be restoring the Registry, the programs would not work. Also, a lot of progrmas use *.ini files that you would not know to copy. You really need to back up the whole works, or most things will not run anymore. This is probably the worst "feature" of Windows, in my opinion. If you just "reinstall" Windows on the same disk where everything was, most of your old installations will work, but if you reinstalled to solve a problem, some of the problems will follow you. Also, Windows will scrap all your Novell network install stuff, and you will have to do it over from scratch, and you will probably need files and disks that are not readily available. Also, if you have copied "program manager" from your old Win 3.1, it will be gone. You can rebuild it from scratch, but it's a pain. (It's called progman.exe.) (Win KP or whatever it's called this may not be true, but it's true for '95 and '98, all versions.) **************************************************************************** *****
I guess if worse comes to worse, I could attach the [SCSI] tape drive to the laptop and do the backup that way if there is no easy way to do Windows backups over the network to a UN*X system.
Thanks!
Phil
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