smbtar

[Janina Sajka]

Ah, but if you can boot linux from a floppy, then just use dd (or parted's 
partition copy). It works.

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Pete wrote:

>   I had a 20 gig drive at the time and made a partission at the end of the
> drive to zip it to.
>   too bad the pkz250 can't be used to do the backup from dos.
> 
>   Pete
> 
> From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1 at uic.edu>
> 
> > Ok, but that still goes back to the original issue I've had with it.
> Namely, how are you supposed to smb network the crashed pc to get the images
> off the server?
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 11:48:01AM -0500, Pete wrote:
> > > From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1 at uic.edu>
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I know that you can backup a windows machine using smbclient's smbtar.
> > > However, what happens in terms of restoring that backup when your
> windows
> > > gets wiped? I thought you might be able to boot into Linux from
> floppies,
> > > and restore that way, but I wasn't sure. Any comments?
> > > > Greg
> > > >
> > >   I used winzip to do it zip everything in to a massive zip turned into
> exe.
> > > You stil need windows up to make it unzip though. The script files MS
> has
> > > for use whith setup from dos suck-- ESP the productID not being accepted
> in
> > > the script file.
> > >   TC
> > >   I was looking at a C gate 137 gig SCSI drive under $300, any comments
> > > about it and speakup+linux working TGR?
> > > Pete
> > >
> > >
> > >
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