Andrew, You make good points all around. Frankly, I don’t know what I’m going to do or how I’m going to do it. What I do know is, the client has nothing. They can’t save anything, they can’t do anything meaningful, they have out of date unpatched software, their web browser is a mess, they need something. I don’t know what that something is, but I feel duty bound to help them. I freely admit that I may be on a fools errand, but I can’t sit by and do nothing in good conscience. It’s a very common situation in the blind community. Some do-gooder shows up one day with a box of rocks, drops it on the clients table, and says “have fun!“ Totally ridiculous! But this is the situation in which so many visually impaired people find themselves. They get no training, they have no support, everyone thinks that they can open the box and figure it all out themselves. Some can, some can’t. Some do a half baked job and managed to get by, limping along on what they’ve been able to figure out om their own. But eventually, something goes wrong about which they know nothing and can figure nothing to do. This is the situation in which my client is. Ethically, morally, this is something with which I cannot just sit by and say “oh well, guess you have to put up with it.“ If I win the lottery, I will start a foundation to fix this. We need more equality in this area. Unfortunately, I am only one person and can’t fix everything for everyone, but I’ll probably die trying.
On Jan 14, 2026, at 10:14 AM, Andrew Hodgson via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
Hi.
I don't think I would trust the backup if you've not done it yourself. How do you know you are going to be able to restore that backup in the event of an issue? Are you going to try and talk the client into doing a clean install of Windows 10?
Andrew.
-----Original Message----- From: Steve Matzura via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: 14 January 2026 14:40 To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Cc: Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Accessible and FREE Windows 10/11 Backup Software
All your solutions are good, people, except I will never have access to the system, as the client knows less than nothing about anything about this stuff. Therefore, I cannot have a solution that requires on-site access. Of course, somehow, I am going to have to get the client a CD or DVD that they can boot in order to restore anything, but most of this will require doing it remotely. I have settled on a package called RESTIC. For restoring, I am going to prepare the suitable removable medium and send it to the client. They can handle that much.
On Jan 13, 2026, at 8:50 AM, Jason J.G. White via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
Mobeen Iqbal via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> wrote: You could try using windows built in backup solution. if you go to control panel and go to backup and restore (windows 7), this should allow you to image the drive fully and then you can restore from a windows 10 pen drive using narrator.
Another option would be to use Clonezilla. Years have elapsed since I last tried it, but as I recall it was fully screen reader-accessible after booting a GRML image. (GRML is a Debian-based Linux distribution customized for system administration tasks.) _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
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