[ale] sort of OT: Windows driver for ext2/ext3 with 256-byte inodes?

[John.Scott at peak10.com (John Scott)]

> Does anyone know a windows 2008 driver that will allow a ext3 drive
> with 256-byte inodes to be mounted?

Greg,

This could be a very undesirable solution; however, still worth a thought.  This is presuming that your Windows 2008 box with LTO-4 tape drive has network backup software installed on it.

You could take a different path entirely and install virtualbox or vmware on your windows system temporarily, fire up a small Linux VM, install the backup client software on the Linux VM, present the eSATA physical drive to the Linux VM, mount it, then perform a network backup of the Linux VM.  A lot of work to get this done, I know, but it would get it backed up absent any other ideas.


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