Image Backups over a network?

Gregory Nowak gnowak1 at uic.edu
Thu Jan 3 12:02:34 EST 2002


Norton ghost can backup over a network, however, I have never gotten it to complete when using 2 different brands of network cards. When I used 2 different brands, it would just halt after 5-10 minutes or so.
Greg


On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 05:08:10AM -0700, 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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