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(OT for some:) backup scheme that restores without user input?
(Achtung: cross-posted. So that I'm not accused of doing it underhand.)
All you backup enthusiasts: I'm looking for a backup mechanism which backs up the C: partition of a Windows XP system to an external (USB-connected) drive, which also offers to make a bootable CD, which when inserted, restores the backed-up partition WITHOUT ANY USER INTERACTION - or, with only a few keystrokes which can be memorised _and don't change or depend on what's on the screen_. This is on behalf of my blind friends, who use XP with speech and Braille output - which doesn't work if they've screwed up the OS somehow. So what they need is a way of restoring to a working system that involves nothing more than putting in a CD and cycling the power. (They could leave the BIOS set to boot from CD first - yes they are aware of the potential malware aspects of doing that.) Other things that would be nice, but not important (except the first one): Free or cheap looks after the backup disc in a way that deletes the oldest backup when there's not enough space to do a new backup can be set to do a backup and then turn the computer off -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf If it's pretentious, then at least it's not the sort that wears a horned helmet and shrieks about trolls. - Stuart Maconie in Radio Times, 14-20 November 2009. |
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