[svlug] Back up Windows 7 Pro from Fedora...

[kevin dankwardt]

Wed May 13th, 7:00-9:00 at Symantec as usual.

Consuming opensource and Why work upstream: A Talk By Khem Raj

Khem Raj is and has been a leading contributor to a number of vital open
source projects including the GNU toolchain. As a software engineer working
with real products that make use of open source software he has continually
worked with how best to serve business needs and work with open source
communities.

Announced on both the SVLUG and the SVLT meetups.

I am waiting to see if Khem would like to add some more to the talk
description.


-kevin

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Michael Robinson <plug_1 at robinson-west.com>
wrote:

> My Windows 7 pro system is on a dedicated 128 gig Samsung SSD.  I need
> a method that will work as well for Windows 7 Home Premium as it will
> for Windows 7 pro.  I'm guessing to back up the boot sector on the
> SSD and the partition layout that I need the first four megabytes off
> of the SSD using dd.  I did the following to make a boot sector backup:
>
>         dd if=/dev/sdb of=bootsectorssd.img bs=512k count=8
>
> I then figured that ntfs-3g is good enough for backup purposes and
> copied the files to a network mounted hard disk.
>
>         cp -arv windows7prosystem/* /root/Backup/May_4_2014/Win7Pro
>
> I am using Fedora 21 updated as much as possible.  Tried Fedora 22,
> it isn't ready yet.  Fedora 22 is how I got into the mess with
> Windows 7 Home Premium in the first place when I restored that
> system on my laptop.  Ninety dollars later, I paid to have the system
> purged of spyware and updated.
>
> The obvious problem with my backup method, I don't compress the files.
> Another problem, I'm trusting that ntfs-3g is good enough to copy the
> files off and later copy them to a newly created empty ntfs file system.
> A bit by bit backup of the SSD is the safest, but it will jamb up my
> 100mb-1gb network.  Doing a 128 gig bit dump also takes days.
>
> I need a simple and effective full backup method that employs
> compression so it is fast and I want file by file verification.
> I have a FreeNAS9 based NAS, but I am having permission issues
> using it and it is harder to use it from Linux than it is to use
> it from Windows.  Uge :-(  I hate Windows, it is a necessary evil
> though at times.
>
> I'm setting up Fedora 21 under Virtualbox on top of Windows 7 Home
> Premium for web development on the laptop, it is job related.  I want
> to back that virtual machine up separately from the Windows 7 system.
>
> Can I test my boot sector backup using Virtualbox somehow???
>
>      -- Michael.
>
>
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