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As I see the issue is there are 3 separate backup issues. 1. Backing up the OS which really requires ghosting using clonezilla or equivalent. 2. file by file backup. This essentially can be easily automated over a network by CPP and many other products. 3. Registry. The registry is covered by #1, but the registry changes over time also. This I see as the messiest issue in that a registry failure can render a system totally unusable. #1 solves this, but you are probably not going to want to ghost all that often. So, you really want to have a backup system that can easily restore the registry but can be run more frequently than clonezilla. One question. On a multi-boot system, can you use dd(1) to clone the Windows partition so it can be restored to a workable condition. Certainly this is probably not an option for a standalone Windows system. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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