smbtar

[Thomas Ward]

Hi, Greg. Have you ever conciddered Image cast 4.5?
I use it extensively to Image drives, and it works good from dos floppies.
One thing I've noticed is if you are going to shoot across the network you
will need dos drivers for your nic.


----- Original Message -----
From: Gregory Nowak <gnowak1 at uic.edu>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: smbtar


> Ok, but that still goes back to the original issue I've had with it.
Namely, how are you supposed to smb network the crashed pc to get the images
off the server?
> Greg
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 11:48:01AM -0500, Pete wrote:
> > From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1 at uic.edu>
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I know that you can backup a windows machine using smbclient's smbtar.
> > However, what happens in terms of restoring that backup when your
windows
> > gets wiped? I thought you might be able to boot into Linux from
floppies,
> > and restore that way, but I wasn't sure. Any comments?
> > > Greg
> > >
> >   I used winzip to do it zip everything in to a massive zip turned into
exe.
> > You stil need windows up to make it unzip though. The script files MS
has
> > for use whith setup from dos suck-- ESP the productID not being accepted
in
> > the script file.
> >   TC
> >   I was looking at a C gate 137 gig SCSI drive under $300, any comments
> > about it and speakup+linux working TGR?
> > Pete
> >
> >
> >
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