Re: Save a disk image

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Author: FoulDragon@aol.com
Date:  
To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Save a disk image
In a message dated 1/29/2006 2:01:05 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
writes:

>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


Mount the network drive.

dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/networkdrive/desiredfilename

Shut down and then blow away the drive.

To recover, boot from a rescue disc which can mount NFS and has dd and do it
in reverse (if=/mnt/networkdrive/filename of=/dev/hda)
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