dd if=/dev/hda | gzip -9 -c | ssh userid@someremotehost "> /directory/file-name-to-be-stored.gz Replace /dev/hda with the drive you want backed up (or /dev/hda1 for first partition), userid with the userid on the remote host your backing up to, someremotehost with the hostname of the remote machine, and /directory/file-name-to-be-stored.gz with the name of the file you want it to be named as on the remote machine.. with the .gz extension. On 4/6/07, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > (Again I am sure some one has beaten me to this, but) > > dd will not compress your drive, so if you have an 80GB drive you will > need at least 80GB of space. Though I remember some trick to this like > dd|tar|zip|net but I do not recall. > > I have used several windows based tools off of a live windows diag disk > I have (ultimate boot disk for windows 4) such as xml drive copy and > they work great and are much cheaper then ghost, but somehow not as > comforting as ghost... > > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Mark > Phillips > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 12:21 PM > To: PLUG > Subject: How do I save a disk image of my laptop hard drive? > > I have a laptop that dual boots Windows and Debian. I need to make a > complete > backup of the entire drive. I have another Windows XP machine on my > network > (or another Debian machine) with some extra disk space, so I would like > to > create an image of the disk drive and store it there. I then want to > restore > it later. How do I do that? > > I have been googling around for "hard drive backup" and "partition > backup". I > found a few options, tested them on the Window 200 partition, and they > don't > seem to be able to do the job. One problem I have is that Windows 2000 > does > not see the Linux partition and Debian does not see the Windows 2000 > partition. Based on what I read, I should unmount the drive I am copying > - is > this true? > > I am not enough of a Linux guru to figure out how to use dd across the > network. Can I run dd on the system I am imaging? > > Can I do this with a knoppix CD? Is there a howto somewhere? I couldn't > find > it. > > Thanks! > > Mark > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- "Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it." -Napoleon Bonaparte --------------------------------------------------- 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