If you are using VMware on the cheap (free), then you are probably missing some great functionality. For one, backups! Sure you can backup your data inside the VM (and you should!), but how about bare metal full VM backups? If you like the idea but hate the cost check out ghettoVCB. It's a great script that has some limited community support. Basically it runs several shell commands to snapshot your VM which unlocks your main VMDK file. Then makes an FTP connection out, and copies the entire VM (minus the snapshot of course) to a destination of your choosing. Then if you have any need for the backup you can simply import the VM and your back up and running. Lots of great uses for this and it's FREE!
https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8760
https://github.com/lamw/ghettoVCB
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Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Monday, August 30, 2010
Driver Backup
If you have ever had to reload a Windows system and dreaded looking for CD's or figuring out what drivers to use, then this is the program for you!
DriverBackup! backs up all of your drivers and gives you a nice .bat file to run to install everything when you reinstall is complete. Haven't tried it yet but next chance I get I will definitely be using this. Oh and it's FREE.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/drvback/
Came across another tool that looks promising.
http://www.slimdrivers.com/
DriverBackup! backs up all of your drivers and gives you a nice .bat file to run to install everything when you reinstall is complete. Haven't tried it yet but next chance I get I will definitely be using this. Oh and it's FREE.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/drvback/
Came across another tool that looks promising.
http://www.slimdrivers.com/
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Use any webpage as your screen saver FREE
Looking for free screen savers is a virtual !MINE*FIELD@
Screen Saver sites in general tend to be full of "free" (Shareware != free) and spyware laden screen savers for download. So when I started looking for a free screen saver that would display a webpage, I cringed a little. I did some Google searching and found someone posted the following site on Digg (Yes it is useful once in awhile). This screen saver is FREE and as far as I can tell doesn't include any spyware. I haven't fully tested it, but it seems like a nice simple screen saver that allows you to display any website or anything that can be displayed in IE. Check it out and let me know what you think.
HTML Screensaver:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/djmclean/htmlscreensaver.html
Side note: I wanted to display a nice full screen weather map while in screen saver mode. http://www.wunderground.com/auto/wxmap/
Screen Saver sites in general tend to be full of "free" (Shareware != free) and spyware laden screen savers for download. So when I started looking for a free screen saver that would display a webpage, I cringed a little. I did some Google searching and found someone posted the following site on Digg (Yes it is useful once in awhile). This screen saver is FREE and as far as I can tell doesn't include any spyware. I haven't fully tested it, but it seems like a nice simple screen saver that allows you to display any website or anything that can be displayed in IE. Check it out and let me know what you think.
HTML Screensaver:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/djmclean/htmlscreensaver.html
Side note: I wanted to display a nice full screen weather map while in screen saver mode. http://www.wunderground.com/auto/wxmap/
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