[COLUG] Disk Backup

[amccomis2 at mccomis.com]

Duane,

Virtualization comes in handy in cases like this:

- It abstracts the hardware layer, such that the "machine" is now a file and
can run on any piece of hardware that can host VMWare.
- backing up a "machine" is now reduced to backing up one file.
- Even if you needed the actual physical boxes to run, putting a Linux +
Vmware down underneath the "running" Win98 would still pay dividends because
you can now literally plug-n-play the machines among each other, trading in
or out hardware that (of this age) is likely to be coming close to
end-of-life / expected failures.
- No matter what OS, having the ability to undo, snapshot, rollback, etc.
scores major  cool points in my book.

Bonus points: you could even brag that you solved the Win98 situation by
installing Linux. And that wouldn't be an exaggeration. :-)

-Angelo

-----Original Message-----
From: colug432-bounces at colug.net [mailto:colug432-bounces at colug.net] On
Behalf Of Duane
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 2:02 AM
To: Central OH Linux User Group
Subject: [COLUG] Disk Backup


I've been asked to do a network/CD image for Win98 (older machines) so
as to reduce stuff on the system (no AV, no anti-spyware).

I'm playing with g4u (http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/) but it's pretty slow on
older machines.

Is there any better options or ways of admining multiple win98 machines
on varying hardware (each system has different video cards or sound
cards or whatever).

-- 

Best regards,
 Duane

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