Archiving workstation hard drives

Alexandre Souza wrote: :) You know I figured there were probably a few things out there, at least for console apps. Presumably stuffing received input from the network into the keyboard buffer though and handling video updates direct from video memory (even in text mode) raises some interesting issues. It's a tricky thing to do I suppose if the DOS machine happens to support more than one app, and in this case I could see there being at least a couple (something to do SCSI/SASI archive and retrieval, something to do floppy disk archive/retrieval). At the end of the day if it has to have its own display and keyboard then that's the way it has to be :) I just like the idea of being able to just flick the switch on the box to power it off and on, boot from something like a CF card (remember archive reads/writes will be to a remote system, and DOS itself won't place high write demands on a CF card), and just telnet/serial link "into" the machine to control it. That sort of thing lends itself much better to a Unix environment, but unfortunately Linux (at least) just puts too much stuff inbetween the user and the bare metal to make data recovery type work easy. I keep going round in circles here :)