EZ backup of Win95 ...

[Earl Young]

     Winzip can read tar files but cannot create them.  The MKS Toolkit 
     (which is one of the true gems of the software world) supports tar 
     files.  It runs on DOS/Windows machines.
     
     Earl Young


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Subject: Re: EZ backup of Win95 ...
Author:  jbfink at ogre.lib.muohio.edu at INTERNET
Date:    2/26/97 3:10 PM


     
Ulrich (and Web4Lib),
     
Your plan for creating a small Linux partition on each Windows machine is 
a relatively interesting proposal.  I would probably split the disk about 
evenly, but I wouldn't rely on a floppy-boot -- I'd install LILO and give 
LILO a zero-wait and default boot into '95.  I'd install a *very* minimal 
Linux system, no compilers, no X, and back up the Windows partition using 
GNU's tar facility, which also includes automagic filtering through gzip 
so as to create a compressed tar file of whatever Windows files you deemed 
necessary to back up.
     
What might be an even better solution if you have many Windows machines of 
identical or similar setups is to locate a dedicated Linux box and just 
store the tar file(s) on it.  If you cooked up the Linux machine with SMB 
(Windows networking) or Novell/IPX and GNU tar for Windows (does such a 
thing exist?  I think so but I'm not sure) you wouldn't even have to leave 
Windows to restore your files.
     
-- john f., miami university library systems.