[NCLUG] "ghost" a Windows box using dd, other Linux tools

[Michael Dwyer]

> I'd like to back them up to my Linux box over the net as a .img
> file and then, when (not if) disaster struck, I could boot off
> the rescue disk again and then re-write the C: drive from the net.

Me too!

Er...  I've never had a chance to try it.  There would be no problems
with dd'ing a partition off to an image.  You can even use things like
/dev/nvram to save the state of the CMOS.  I think it would work 
perfectly for mirroring identical machines -- or mirroring one machine
to itself.  However, I never gave it a try -- I was always concerned
about how it would handle, say, different geometry hard drives.

I have often wondered why there was no linux-based GHOST lookalike.
It seems so natural to me...