Backup/recover strategy

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#1

I apologize if I sound like a newbie with QNX, but I am. So forgive me if I
use the terminology incorrectly.
I have a company laptop that is configured so that on bootup it will
automatically run a demo in Photon using QNX 4.22
The laptop’s harddrive has QNX primary boot with a Win95 secondary boot
option. It has an internal CD and I have an External CD-burner.

Since I am only good with Win/DOS platforms. I would like to be able to
boot up DOS off of the floppy drive and then, with something like Norton
Ghost, make an image of the whole drive to the CD-Burner. The idea is that
I can wipe the harddrive and load it with WinNT. When I give the laptop
back, I can wipe the drive again and put the drive back the way it was,
everything intact.

The easy way was to buy a second harddrive for the laptop but it was also
the very expensive way.

Is there a way this can be done? Would Norton Ghost or similiar program be
able to deal with the way QNX is on the drive?

Thanks,
Troy

#2

hi, when I understand you correctly, you want to archive part of QNX
4.22 onto a CD!
this is possible with taring the dir’s of QNX in question into an
archive and after that gzipping
it.

tar -cvf myarchive.tar dir1 dir2 dir3 …
gzip myarchive.tar

Dosfsys &
cp -v myarchive.tar.gz /dos/c/myarch.tgz

be careful to use 8.3 filename syntax under QNX for the DOS stuff!!

Then you have a rather big file under QNX. Now I suppose you are able to
connect to
W95-Filesystem via Dosfsys then copy the gzipped tar-file somewhere into
the Dos-Filesystem and
from there burn your CD.

wish you success!
Jörg

Troy Hiscock schrieb:

I apologize if I sound like a newbie with QNX, but I am. So forgive me if I
use the terminology incorrectly.
I have a company laptop that is configured so that on bootup it will
automatically run a demo in Photon using QNX 4.22
The laptop’s harddrive has QNX primary boot with a Win95 secondary boot
option. It has an internal CD and I have an External CD-burner.

Since I am only good with Win/DOS platforms. I would like to be able to
boot up DOS off of the floppy drive and then, with something like Norton
Ghost, make an image of the whole drive to the CD-Burner. The idea is that
I can wipe the harddrive and load it with WinNT. When I give the laptop
back, I can wipe the drive again and put the drive back the way it was,
everything intact.

The easy way was to buy a second harddrive for the laptop but it was also
the very expensive way.

Is there a way this can be done? Would Norton Ghost or similiar program be
able to deal with the way QNX is on the drive?

Thanks,
Troy

–

Dr. Jörg Kampmann - IBK-Consult for Real-Time and Embedded Systems
http://www.ibk-consult.de
===== QNX is the better Choice for Real-Time: http://www.qnx.com ====

#3

Actually is wasn’t that I wanted to archive parts individually. I was just
looking for a easy way to back everything up to a CD and then be able to
restore the whole thing later.

I’ve used norton ghost. It just boots off of a floppy and then makes an
image of the drive to a CD. But I only know that it works with
DOS/WIN9x/NT. Since I know nothing of QNX, I’m not sure if it would work.


“Joerg Kampmann” <joerg.kampmann@ibk-consult.de> wrote in message
news:3B65CCC9.654694A2@ibk-consult.de…

hi, when I understand you correctly, you want to archive part of QNX
4.22 onto a CD!
this is possible with taring the dir’s of QNX in question into an
archive and after that gzipping
it.

tar -cvf myarchive.tar dir1 dir2 dir3 …
gzip myarchive.tar

Dosfsys &
cp -v myarchive.tar.gz /dos/c/myarch.tgz

be careful to use 8.3 filename syntax under QNX for the DOS stuff!!

Then you have a rather big file under QNX. Now I suppose you are able to
connect to
W95-Filesystem via Dosfsys then copy the gzipped tar-file somewhere into
the Dos-Filesystem and
from there burn your CD.

wish you success!
Jörg

Troy Hiscock schrieb:

I apologize if I sound like a newbie with QNX, but I am. So forgive me
if I
use the terminology incorrectly.
I have a company laptop that is configured so that on bootup it will
automatically run a demo in Photon using QNX 4.22
The laptop’s harddrive has QNX primary boot with a Win95 secondary boot
option. It has an internal CD and I have an External CD-burner.

Since I am only good with Win/DOS platforms. I would like to be able to
boot up DOS off of the floppy drive and then, with something like Norton
Ghost, make an image of the whole drive to the CD-Burner. The idea is
that
I can wipe the harddrive and load it with WinNT. When I give the laptop
back, I can wipe the drive again and put the drive back the way it was,
everything intact.

The easy way was to buy a second harddrive for the laptop but it was
also
the very expensive way.

Is there a way this can be done? Would Norton Ghost or similiar program
be
able to deal with the way QNX is on the drive?

Thanks,
Troy

–

Dr. Jörg Kampmann - IBK-Consult for Real-Time and Embedded Systems
http://www.ibk-consult.de
===== QNX is the better Choice for Real-Time: > http://www.qnx.com > ====

#4

“Troy Hiscock” <hiscockt@aecl.ca> wrote in message
news:9k6abs$n25$1@inn.qnx.com…

Actually is wasn’t that I wanted to archive parts individually. I was
just
looking for a easy way to back everything up to a CD and then be able to
restore the whole thing later.

I’ve used norton ghost. It just boots off of a floppy and then makes an
image of the drive to a CD. But I only know that it works with
DOS/WIN9x/NT. Since I know nothing of QNX, I’m not sure if it would work.

I am not an expert on Ghost, but it seems to me there is some way to have it

do what you want (like image disk instead of image partition or
something…). Otherwise it wants to understand the file system so it can
resize things going to a different disk.

You really should be asking Norton’s tech support rather than here, if you
want an authoritative answer.

BTW, do you really need the space taken up by the QNX partition? Why not
just replace the other winbloze partition and set that partition active?
You already know how to back that part up…

C HL

#5

You really should be asking Norton’s tech support rather than here, if you
want an authoritative answer.

I figured as much, calling them was my next step

BTW, do you really need the space taken up by the QNX partition? Why not
just replace the other winbloze partition and set that partition active?
You already know how to back that part up…

C HL

Now that’s a thought! I would go with that, but I wasn’t sure if NT would
try to mess up the fact that QNX was the primary boot (MS being a jealous
god and all that). Also the only way I know how to play with partitions is
with FDISK and I was apprehensive to do so. But it gives me a new series of
questions to ask around.

Thanks.