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[Janina Sajka]

I should think so. As long as you can boot the local machine, whether by 
floppy, CDR, or whatever, and connect to the net, this should work just 
fine, imho. 

I think you might want to keep data on the local partition, just in case 
you have to dive down to repartition. Don't know how dd treats restoring 
to a different sized partition, wouldn't expect it would be happy with a 
smaller partition, and don't have any sense about a larger one because 
I've never tried that.
 On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> So, if I had a share that I wanted to backup //machine/c to a file backup via dd, I could then(probably through nfs with linux boot disks) connect to the server, and dd backup to the networked machine?
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 11:57:16AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > I don't know anything about using SMB tools for backing Windows up. I do 
> > know, from experience, that using dd to write an image of the Windows 
> > partition works excellently well. So, if you could build yourself a 
> > floppy, or a CD ROM, that booted linux with speakup and net drivers, I 
> > don't see why you couldn't restore a Windows machine over the net, or from 
> > some locally attached media.
> > 
> > My experience using dd this way is mostly on my portable Thinkpad, where I 
> > keep a Windows installation in /dev/hda3. Whenever I install something on 
> > that partition that mucks up the Windows, I don't muss and I don't fuss. I 
> > just go back to linux and dd the former, pre-troublesome Windows 
> > installation back to /dev/hda3. Works like a charm, and it works fast. My 
> > restores are about 10 minutes on just over 2 gB.
> > 
> > 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org