This tutorial shows you how to back up your fit-PC2 workstation (or any USB-bootable computer) so you can quickly and easily restore your computer to its original state in the event of a hard drive failure, or infection by a trojan or virus.
It involves creating a new Linux partition on your existing hard drive, and works for both Windows and Linux workstations. All you need is a USB thumb drive and some free software.
Here at Yawarra, we have a pretty normal set up – workstations on each person’s desk and file servers with our important business data.
But a workstation still requires many hours and resources to build, and each workstation quickly morphs into a unique set of programs, configurations and preferences.
So we devised a quick and easy to way to backup each workstation using only a USB thumb drive and some creative partitioning.
Once upon a time when my little boy was only 2 years old, I noticed he liked to imitate what I was doing on my computer. So I gave him one.
I chose the ALIX 1 because it uses very little power, can run from a CF card and has a ready-made desktop environment available in iMedia Linux.
With very little effort, I built a fully-featured internet-capable box that was much less likely to get him into trouble online than one with Windows.
