Save a disk image

[Mark Phillips]

On Sunday 29 January 2006 02:10 pm, FoulDragon at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 1/29/2006 2:01:05 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
> mark at phillipsmarketing.biz 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.

I am having trouble mounting it correctly. I can read the network drive, but I 
cannot write to it. I have the following:

server (192.168.25.115) in /etc/exports
/backups/mark/inspiron  192.168.25.220(rw,all_squash)

client (192.168.25.220) 
mount 192.168.25.115:/backups/mark/inspiron /mnt/inspiron -o rw

After mounting, I can read files in /mnt/inspiron, but I cannot write them. 
The 'dd' command fails with 'Permission denied'. The mount command reveals:

192.168.25:115:/backups/mark/inspiron /mnt/inspiron type nfs 
(rw,address=192.168.25.115)

I am running the client with a knoppix cd in the root console for knoppix. The 
root user on knoppix has uid/guid=0.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

> 
> 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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Mark Phillips
Phillips Marketing, Inc
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