[Info-vax] OT(?): Linux: developed by corporates. *NOT* developed by unpaid volunteers.

[John E. Malmberg]

On 3/29/2015 2:41 PM, David Froble wrote:
> Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2015-03-29, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>> Kerry Main wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ask all of those backup vendors who are doing well selling backup
>>>> products for Windows and Linux when those platforms includes "free"
>>>> platform utilities to do this.
>>> Oh, I must be really dense.  Can you tell me how to backup and
>>> restore a weendoze system disk?  Using the backup provided with
>>> weendoze ..
>>>
>>
>> One option is the exact same way you do it on VMS; you use a tool which
>> provides a Windows/Linux version of standalone backup.
>>
>> Simon.

> But, that is not part of the standard weendoze distribution.  It's a
> third party (or even MS) add-on.

Recent Microsoft Windows, from at least Vista onwards provide a backup 
tool that can create "image" backups.

The distribution DVD/Thumbdrive can be booted and restore that backup.

For most retail PCs, the restored backup can only be restored on 
hardware that is running almost the exact same BIOS as what the backup 
was taken on.  Works for upgrading the hard drive.

For changing the hardware, then you have to install Windows and then 
create all the accounts before restoring the user's files from the old 
backup.

Microsoft tools for moving or "upgrading the OS" to a new PC assume that 
you are always moving from a running older system to the new system.

The tools and their on-line instructions that can be easily found do not 
handle the case where you have salvaged the hard drive from a dead 
system and want to use it for the new system.

Regards,
-John