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Using Linux for Windows HD Snapshots?
DBordello asks: "Our company is currently backing up weekly to tape. I would like to begin taking snapshots of our NT 4.0 server. My first thought was a Linux box running an Open Source solution. My research shows that most Open Source applications to take snapshots assume that the backup target is Linux based. This presents a problem with mounting the NT 4.0 server. While I could mount the share with Samba, all of the backup applications do not provide options to backup a local mount. What do you guys use to snapshot your Windows network?"
You could at least try to be on topic, you know. Saying something like, use dd and your hard drive images will last as long as Strom Thurmond. Or, you need to keep your Windows backups segregated from your Linux backups, just like Strom Thurmond would have done. C'mon, try it, it's fun.
So, if the new hard drive is smaller... what then?
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Then you bought the wrong hard drive.
It is more productive to voice thoughtful opinions (reply) than to judge (moderate) others.
3) Get fired for giving people 'Dickless Workstations'.
4) No profit.
you dont!
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Bacula only works with Quantum [Leap] hard drives, which should be an adequate solution for the Enterprise.
Hey, don't mock me. I just spent all night spastically jerking my mouse around and uploading all of my music to various FTP servers just to be able to eek 200MB from /dev/random. Now I just need to find a way sell it.
Should be superior intellect. I can't even get it right.
Yoda of Borg am I! Assimilated shall you be! Futile resistance is, hmm?