From: nodeleaf.20.eatallspam@spamgourmet.com   
      
   General Schvantzkopf wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:43:01 +0100, Walter Mautner wrote:   
   >   
   >> General Schvantzkopf wrote:   
   >>   
   ......   
   >> and incremental images every day. Acronis true image or Ghost for   
   >> windows or others may be able to do that, but it isn't for free.   
   >   
   > It's not expensive either, free is not a goal here, a reliable backup   
   > solution is what I'm after. Apparently the level of pain involved in   
   > restoring a Windows environment is orders of magnitude worse than   
   > restoring a Linux environment. On my systems I just rsync my CVS   
   > database, e-mail database, and commercial software to several other   
   > systems on a frequent basis and make DVDs every few weeks. There is no   
   > need to back up the OS because it only takes a few minutes to do a clean   
   > Linux install. On Windows the software is entangled with the OS because   
   > of the damn registry. Also a number of packages use a finger printing   
   > mechanism similar to Windows activation instead of the infinitely easier   
   > Flexlm mechanism that is used for commercial software on Linux, some high   
   > end Windows apps line ModelSim use Flexlm also but the middling expensive   
   > stuff like PhotoShop uses activation (or so I'm told). I just want a   
   > simple recovery mechanism for my girlfriend's system so that I don't have   
   > to listen to her whining about how it takes her two months to get the   
   > system back to the way she likes it.   
      
   After all, set up a linux box for her and windows inside a vmware/virtualbox   
   only. At least she can continue surfing or e-mailing while windows is shut   
   down for backup. "Reverseable disks" are possible as well then.   
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