Backup Fedora core 3 to Windows 2000

[Marc M]

Ugh.  I ran into the same situation a while back when a Linux class I
taught was in a windows client environment, and the server wasn't
'ghostable'.  although it wasn't ghost but another very similar tool. 
The backup utility didn't support ext3 filesystem in this instance.

I think you need something like 'dd' that comes with Linux.  I have
heard there are some Linux/UNIX utilities like that that you can run
as an application/utility in windoze.  You might google for 'dd
windows' or something similar.  I found this for instance:

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/dd.htm

Unfortunately I have not heard of any backup utility that does
multiplatform; even if the vendor supports it, Microsoft is making it
hard to do business with them, as usual.  If you have a gig or two of
data a dd type utility might be the way to go; otherwise I would
probably search downloads.com or linuxjournal.com or sourceforge.net
for comparable utilities.  Good luck.

Also if this is just a backup so you avoid screwing anything up with
the os, keep in mind that you can also just burn cd's of the data. 
You don't have to burn the whole os, just certain directories such as
/home and /etc that contain key data; if anything happened it would be
possible to copy these back onto your system.

Marc


On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:24:19 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon <kwokhon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I would search a solution to backup my running Fedora Core 3 to
> Windows 2000 for archive purpose because I want to have a backup that
> when I something wrong druring my work on the Linux.
> 
> In past, I can use the Ghost to backup my Redhat 9, Fedora Core 2 to
> the windows 2000 but now can't.
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Wong Kwok Hon
> 
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