• Operating system is Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP or Linux (distributions from RedHat and from SuSE have been tested)
• The entire operating system to be backed up is installed on a single partition. The disk and the partition number are configurable.

Partitioning details

One primary and one logical partition table are supported. Therefore the system partition can be on any of the four primary partitions (1..4) or even on any of the first set of logical partitions (5..8). It is highly recommended to leave at least 6 GB free, non-partitioned space at the end of the disk. It will be used automatically by Rembo for caching purposes. Although Rembo 2.0 can operate without the cache disk space the lack of the cache disk space will make its operation slower and less reliable. The Rembo Wizard is optimized to use the cache disk space for a fast system restoration process.

Windows: It is recommended that C: drive contains only system files. Partition type can be FAT32 or NTFS. Arrange so that the second partition (assigned probably with drive letter D:) will contain end-user's data files. The Rembo Wizard will not back up or alter the contents of the D: disk (partition) . You can have other partitions (Windows disks) configured on your hard disk. The Rembo Wizard will register them in its partition table signature but it will not alter the contents of these partitions. If a Windows 2000/XP is installed on a SCSI-disk, the automatic replacement of the hard disk information in the Windows registry will not work but you may have to reboot the system once more if you have restored the system on a new disk. On Windows XP SP-1 or greater product activation key may be required in this case.

Linux: The Rembo Wizard supports installation both on SCSI and on IDE disk with EXT2/EXT3 file systems. The "X" on the diagram can therefore be either "h" or "s". The system partition can be on any of the eight partitions that The Rembo Wizard recognizes. In the example on the right the first partition is supposed to contain the entire Linux installation, the "/". The Linux swap partition can be selected also freely, in the example it is the second partition. You can have other partitions, even Windows partitions configured on your hard disk. The Rembo Wizard will register them in its partition table signature but it will not alter the contents of these partitions. Arrange so, that the end-user's data will be stored on an other partition, on a NFS-server but not on the root partition.

  19 Mar 2003