Hi,
I am a total beginner with this level of hacking but have an ambitious plan.
I would like to implement a backup system which would not be based on
taking a image, which takes lot of time.
Instead I would have a database on a Linux server, to which Windows
files would be backed up. Even more ambitious is the plan that person
could make a restore DVD on Linux machine to restore Windows machine
after for example hard disk crash.
I have found at least few things I have to learn.
- NTFS structure. Linux supports (at some level) NTFS so I am going to
learn that.
- Registry backup. Anyone have any pointers?
- Windows and it’s subdirectories contain files which are locked by
the operating system. How I could backup those?
Basic idea is also that registry contents would be continuosly backed
up and at restore it could be selected which version would be
restored.
Any help highly appreciated. If I ever get this done it will be
licensed under GPL 2 or later.
Best Regards
Kari Laine
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Why against a image based backup?
IMPO, Image based backups are better than file based backups.
Moreover, I am not clear what you want to do here.
You want to implement a continuous data protection (coz you said you want to
continuously protect registry) or a file based backup product?
For continuous protection, you can use NTFS journals or better have your own
file system filter.
For file/image based backups, you anyways need a point in time snapshot of
system with application’s data consistency,
So you will have to use VSS for that.
And why so biased for using only linux server for storing backed up data.
Your customer might not be interested in having linux backup server in their
enterprise.
You should consider supporting both linux/windows.
-Deepak
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Kari Laine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a total beginner with this level of hacking but have an ambitious
> plan.
> I would like to implement a backup system which would not be based on
> taking a image, which takes lot of time.
> Instead I would have a database on a Linux server, to which Windows
> files would be backed up. Even more ambitious is the plan that person
> could make a restore DVD on Linux machine to restore Windows machine
> after for example hard disk crash.
>
> I have found at least few things I have to learn.
> - NTFS structure. Linux supports (at some level) NTFS so I am going to
> learn that.
> - Registry backup. Anyone have any pointers?
> - Windows and it’s subdirectories contain files which are locked by
> the operating system. How I could backup those?
>
> Basic idea is also that registry contents would be continuosly backed
> up and at restore it could be selected which version would be
> restored.
>
> Any help highly appreciated. If I ever get this done it will be
> licensed under GPL 2 or later.
>
> Best Regards
> Kari Laine
>
> –
> PIC - ARM - Microcontrollers - I2C - SPI
> Keypads - USB-RS232 - USB-I2C - Accessories
> http://www.byvac.com
> I am just a happy customer
>
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>Anyone have any pointers?
yeah, start with learning windows architecture. Windows internals 5th ed is
a good point to begin with…
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Kari Laine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a total beginner with this level of hacking but have an ambitious
> plan.
> I would like to implement a backup system which would not be based on
> taking a image, which takes lot of time.
> Instead I would have a database on a Linux server, to which Windows
> files would be backed up. Even more ambitious is the plan that person
> could make a restore DVD on Linux machine to restore Windows machine
> after for example hard disk crash.
>
> I have found at least few things I have to learn.
> - NTFS structure. Linux supports (at some level) NTFS so I am going to
> learn that.
> - Registry backup. Anyone have any pointers?
> - Windows and it’s subdirectories contain files which are locked by
> the operating system. How I could backup those?
>
> Basic idea is also that registry contents would be continuosly backed
> up and at restore it could be selected which version would be
> restored.
>
> Any help highly appreciated. If I ever get this done it will be
> licensed under GPL 2 or later.
>
> Best Regards
> Kari Laine
>
> –
> PIC - ARM - Microcontrollers - I2C - SPI
> Keypads - USB-RS232 - USB-I2C - Accessories
> http://www.byvac.com
> I am just a happy customer
>
> —
> NTFSD is sponsored by OSR
>
> For our schedule of debugging and file system seminars visit:
> http://www.osr.com/seminars
>
> To unsubscribe, visit the List Server section of OSR Online at
> http://www.osronline.com/page.cfm?name=ListServer
>
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