Image Backups over a network?

[Janina Sajka]

This is the eternal problem of backing up. It seems to be the never ending 
chase.

Bottom line -- you have to be able to put your file somewhere. There's 
squeezing you can do, yes, with things like tar and bunzip, but eventually 
it has to write somewhere.
 On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Steve Holmes wrote:

> While we've been on the subject of backing up and restoring of partitions
> over a network with parted and the like, I came up with a question. I
> would like to back up an image of one of my windows boxes to a CD ROM.
> Two things here: The machine machine I want to backup does not have a CD
> burner of its own; the image will most likely require several disks to
> complete the job. I have a copy of Norton Ghost but I don't think it can
> backup over a network, plus it is *windows* so I'm wondering if there is a
> linux solution out there. I suppose I could use dd to off load the
> machine's image, I don't know if I have enough disk space on my linux box
> to hold a 10 gig image however.
> Any ideas out there?
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
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