Philip Amadeo Saeli wrote:
Hi!
I have a laptop computer set up to multi-boot Win2k, WinME and SuSE Linux (7.3, currently). My hard drive is going south and I'd like to make full backups of the Windows partitions (3, all FAT32) to tape before I RMA the drive for repair.
I have a DDS-3 tape drive attached to a server system running Solaris 7 which works just fine for my Linux backups. However, being quite new to Windows, I haven't the foggiest how I can back it up using that tape drive. So far, I've only done disk-to-disk partial backups of my Windows stuff.
Is it possible (or desireable) to do the backups from Linux, or will I need a Windows program to do it? I'd prefer to do it from Linux since I have much more UN*X/Linux experience (approx 18 years, primarily SunOS/Solaris) than Windows experience (approx 18 months). My concern is that doing the backups via tar or equiv thru the VFAT fs will not preserve all the Windows file attributes for restoration onto the repaired disk drive.
Thanks!
Phil
I do this all the time with both tar and dd. Never a problem. I am using Linux tar and dd not Solaris. -- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com