[Gllug] OT - Windows backup problem.

[Ian Northeast]

paul at ma1.se wrote:

> Why M$ hide it away from XP Home users I don't know, but seeing as I run 
> XP on a Linux machine running VMWare Workstation its just easier to 
> backup the disk "image."

Yes, that's what I do too when I *need* XP. At work we have some 
recalcitrant apps which don't even work properly in wine. I back up all 
VMware guests this way.

> Anyway isn't that how Windows ought to be run, as a VM under Linux? ;o)

Yes, if it has to be run at all:)

Having said that, I used my virtual XP today to take a TSM archive of a 
share on an NT server which didn't have TSM or any remote access 
facility installed (it seems remote desktop only came in at 2000?) 
because I couldn't be arsed to go to the machine room, find the server 
and stand at it for ages. This took several hours to back up 2GB which 
it shouldn't have done, even allowing for going over the network twice. 
I don't know if the problem was using VMware or some issue with the 
server though. I've not seen performance problems with VMware's 
networking before; although the virtual NIC is a "pcnet32" which is 10Mb 
in real life, it actually goes a good deal faster than this.

Regards, Ian


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