[K12OSN] Wish list

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 22:34, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> Here is another one.  How about an integrated backup system with easy to use 
> GUI for backing up to HD's, Tapes, or network devices/servers.

I'll once-again plug running backuppc (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/)
on some machine with a big IDE drive as the most painless way to handle
backups. 

> And also 
> incorporate a bare metal restore with GUI from Disk 1 of the boot set.

You could do that by hand, given a backuppc server on the network but
it is a little tricky.  With some kind of convention for keeping the
disk partition layout in a file within the backup it would be possible
to automate it for a restore to identical hardware.

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  Les Mikesell
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