I'm comming into this tread a bit late but was ghost for Linux metioned in this? http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l Jon ---- Dan Lund wrote: > My mistake, syntactical problem with what I gave. > > The following works (just tested it) > dd if=/dev/hda | ssh userid@remotemachine "gzip -9 -c > /root/test.img.gz" > > > On 4/6/07, Dan Lund wrote: > > 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 > > > > > -- > "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 --------------------------------------------------- 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