Boot onto a boot cd like the gentoo live cd, mount the drives under /mnt/gentoo (or any arbitrary mountpoint), then run: "tar -cvpf - /mnt/gentoo | ssh root@backup-server "gzip -9 > /my/backup/directory/backup-tarball.tar.gz". Replace /my/backup/directory with the directory you want to store your bz2 tarball on the remote server, and replace /mnt/gentoo with where you mounted your debian partition on the machine being backed up. I've done this half a billion times as a quick way to get a copy of the OS before I blast a machine for other use. --Dan On 1/29/06, Mark Phillips wrote: > I have an older laptop running debian. I need to convert it to a Windows PC > for a couple of months. However, I want to put it back to its current debian > configuration when I am done. I would rather not have to through the debian > netinstall again and set everything up. > > How do I copy the hard drive (2.1 GB) to my backup server so I can restore it > later when I dump the Windows stuff? How do I do the restore? I have a new > 180GB hard drive on my backup server that I can mount with nfs. > > I don't have enough room on the laptop hard drive to make a partition for > Windows. > > Thanks! > > -- > Mark Phillips > Phillips Marketing, Inc > mark@phillipsmarketing.biz > 602 524-0376 > 480 945-9197 fax > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance. Friedrich Nietzsche --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss