[TriLUG] OT: Removable Storage Suggestions

[Steven Blanchard]

NTFS should be fine as long as the restoration of user files is done
using the newly imaged Windows system. Most linux systems, after all,
have read-only support for NTFS.

~steven

On 12/8/05, John Broome <jbroome at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> > >
> > > --
> > > ----------------
> > > Brian A. Henning
> > > strutmasters.com
> > > 336.597.2397x238
> > > ----------------
> > > --
> > > TriLUG mailing list        : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
> > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ  : http://trilug.org/faq/
> > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
> > >
> > --
> > TriLUG mailing list        : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
> > TriLUG Organizational FAQ  : http://trilug.org/faq/
> > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
> >
> --
> TriLUG mailing list        : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
> TriLUG Organizational FAQ  : http://trilug.org/faq/
> TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
>