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From: nuggets@bluesprings.in-brb.de (Lars Hentschke)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sharing a tape drive
Date: 4 Jan 1996 23:58:55 GMT
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Tom Greenwalt (tomg@fourthgen.fourthgen.com) wrote:
: I installed Samba and that works great for sharing the disks with
: Windows 95 network.  Is there anyway to do a backup of my local 
: Windows disks to the tape drive in my FreeBSD system?
: Thanks.

sorry ... its not the answer to your question, but why backup W95?
iv'e tried it, but you cant recover the entire system. 
Each software-package is held in a registration-database.
If you run W95 to start the W95-backup, this database will be used.
Also some DLL's and many setup/config-files, which cant be overwritten,
because they are "in use".
The End of the Story: After a system-crash - minimal install from CD
and recovering the rest from a backup - it doesnt works.
No drivers for my soundcard, no drivers for my graphicboard, no
menu, no ...

Tell me if i'm wrong, but: W95 sucks, isnt it?

Lars.