18 Dec
2012
18 Dec
'12
2:42 p.m.
On 12/18/2012 2:25 PM, Mouse wrote:
The major hurdle here is that it uses ESDI disks, formatted with an odd
sector size (IIRC, it's 1280 bytes/sector). This doesn't mean it's
impossible, but all the OSes I've tried seem to have trouble dealing
with sector sizes other than 512 bytes.
(The other hurdle is dealing with the bad sector map when writing a
previously captured image to a new disk...)
- Josh
I don't
know what is possible, but would it not be desirable to back
up the system [first]? [...]
And I don't know that backing it up is useful if you can't restore it
onto the system easily.
If the only way to back it up is via network then it may be necessary
to initialize things anyway.
If it uses a conventional disk, then I'd say the
best way to back it up
might be to pull the disk and raw-image it. That also makes for easy
restores...at least, assuming you're trying to do a full restore.
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