smbtar

[Thomas Ward]

Hi, Greg. It's possible if you put the dd image on a cd if you had a dos
port of dd you could just extract directly from something like that.
I wonder if rawrite would work for something like this.

----- Original Message -----
From: Gregory Nowak <gnowak1 at uic.edu>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: smbtar


> So, if I had a share that I wanted to backup file://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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