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Message-ID: <200405271729.41660.fulldisc@ultratux.org>
From: fulldisc at ultratux.org (Maarten)
Subject: Imaging Operating Systems

On Thursday 27 May 2004 16:09, Nick FitzGerald wrote:
> Michael Schaefer <mbs@...trealm.com> wrote:
> > We are building a Windows test system, to try out tool bars, spy ware,
> > malware and trojans on.
> >
> > Once we learn what we need to know, we obviously want to get rid of the
> > junk quickly and cleanly.
> >
> > I keep hearing suggestions about having a "clean image" to transfer onto
> > the computer.
> >
> > Can anyone send some details?
>
> The most common approaches to this are the use of virtual machines
> (VMWare, Virtual PC, etc) and drive image backups (Ghost, etc).  There
> are pros and cons to each and common pitfalls and issues to consider
> carefully when setting this all up...

This is an interesting thread...  But out of curiosity, is it also possible to 
do backup / restores using readily available linux tools? 
I'd like to be able to do something like running dd over a network connection, 
or tar, or whatever other tool.  In that case, a bootable CD is all you need.
But I'm unsure how to do that...

Maarten

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