smbtar

[Gregory Nowak]

Yes, rawrite would work, but the cd-rom drive in the machine I'm thinking of is so old, that it can't read cdrws, and I don't want to waste a cdr.
Greg


On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 04:57:54PM -0500, Thomas Ward wrote:
> 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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