[TriLUG] OT: Removable Storage Suggestions

[John Broome]

Do you *have* to have NTFS on your target systems?  It makes life much
easier to recover data when (not if) windows craps itself if your HDD
is formatted FAT32.

Or, at least it has in my experience.

On 12/8/05, Steven Blanchard <sgblanch at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been wondering about this for a while.  Microsoft has a tool
> called 'sysprep' which allows you to create a mini setup for imaging
> systems.  That coupled with some of the userspace ntfs tools for linux
> (ntfsclone in particular) could be a powerful combination.  For small
> scale use, DVDs or even an external HDD would be perfect. For larger
> scale, a net boot linux which could either pull or accept a push of an
> image. Maybe even use multicast MDP to do large labs.
>
> ~steven
>
> On 12/8/05, Brian Henning <brian at strutmasters.com> wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >    I've hit upon an idea that I'm sure is probably popular and I'd just
> > never thought of it..  but now that I'm having to rebuild a badly
> > spyware-infected machine, I've realized it'd be awesome if I had a ghost
> > image of each machine in pristine state, so when something like this
> > happens again (invariable with these users...), I can simply back up
> > their data and restore the image instead of going through the day-long
> > task of a clean install..
> >
> > So here's what I'm looking for:  I'd like suggestions on an inexpensive
> > medium for storing each image, which will likely average between 5 and
> > 10 GB.  I'm thinking maybe one of the recordable DVD formats.
> >
> > Other suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > See y'all tonight.
> >
> > ~B
> >
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