We have a couple of manufacturing machines that are controlled by Siemens industrial PCs. One of these failed to reboot after the Christmas shutdown and it turns out there are no backups or systems in place to take backups.
After a day and a half, I've got the machine running again without losing any of the installed software or settings, but obviously I don't want to go through that again.
These PC's don't have a CD drive, and can't boot from USB stick or drive. They do have a floppy disk drive, so does anyone know any backup / restore options where I can boot from a floppy and backup the whole HDD in the PC to an external USB drive?
After a day and a half, I've got the machine running again without losing any of the installed software or settings, but obviously I don't want to go through that again.
These PC's don't have a CD drive, and can't boot from USB stick or drive. They do have a floppy disk drive, so does anyone know any backup / restore options where I can boot from a floppy and backup the whole HDD in the PC to an external USB drive?
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