XPpro has a pretty good backup utility. The only weakness is
that it cannot span across multiple disks. So, in most
cases, you'd likely want to use a DVD burner to do the job
br1ght
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"Rob" <noemail@pse.com> wrote in message
news:BbQ1c.13607$JZ6.423857@news20.bellglobal.com. ..
| Gordon Darling wrote:
| > Make CD-ROM Recovery 0.7.8 - A disaster recovery CD-ROM
maker.
| >
| > about:
| > mkCDrec (Make CD-ROM Recovery) makes a bootable (El
Torito) disaster
| > recovery image, including backups of the Linux system to
one or more
| > CD-ROM(s) (multi-volume sets). Otherwise, the backups
can be stored on
| > another disk, NFS disk, or (remote) tape. After a disk
crash or system
| > intrusion, the system can be booted from the CD-ROM and
one can
| > restore the complete system as it was. It also features
disk cloning,
| > which allows one to restore a disk to another disk (the
destination
| > disk does not have to be of the same size, as it
calculates the
| > partition layout itself). Currently, ext2, ext3, minix,
MS-DOS, FAT,
| > VFAT, Reiserfs, XFS, and JFS filesystems are supported.
mkCdrec is
| > also able to restore disks in Software RAID and LVM
mode.
| >
| > Changes:
| > This release supports cdrecord's new ATAPI mechanism.
Important fixes
| > include better detection of the bootloader and Linux
kernel
| > (especially for SuSE). There is a minor fix in cloning
software RAID
| > disks, and some tweaks for supporting Linux 2.6 kernels
and
| > module-init-tools.
| >
| > Release focus: Minor feature enhancements
| > License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
| > Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mkcdrec/
| >
| > Homepage: http://mkcdrec.ota.be
| > Tar/GZ:
| >
http://freshmeat.net/redir/mkcdrec/6...z/mkCDrec_v0.7
..8.tar.gz
| > RPM package:
| >
http://freshmeat.net/redir/mkcdrec/6...m/mkcdrec-v0.7
..8-1.i386.rpm
| >
| > Regards
| > Gordon
|
| This program looks great to back up my pC using Linux!
|
| But I also have Windows PC's. Does anyone know of a
similar FREE program
| for Windows?
|
| Rob
|
|
