Why not use mature utilities like systemimager that are designed
to do this sort of thing very easily? They use rsync, pxeboot,
and such to accomplish all of this as painlessly as possible.
Go to systemimager.org or sisuite.org for additional details.
I use this suite of utilties a LOT in various HPC cluster and other
multi-server environments. It is fairly painless to setup to do
something as simple as capture an image of an existing system.
--
Steven A. DuChene
Linux HPC senior architect
-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>
>Sent: Jan 29, 2006 2:00 PM
>To: PLUG <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>Subject: Save a disk image
>
>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
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