On Tuesday 24 February 2004 08:58 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am looking for some directions or a linux app (preferably something that > is already in Knoppix since I have just gotten my v3.3 burned) that will > allow me to image/restore an entire harddisk partition to/from a networked > drive (via SAMBA).
dd? i just tested (over NFS, since both boxes are linux, NFS might be a better choice than samba). assume that the drive to be backed up (and later restored to) is /dev/sda on source_pc. it is to be backed up to (or restored from) dest_pc. ssh source_pc su -l # in case it's bad to dd from a drive which contains the mount # for the destination (i don't think it's bad, but i'm paranoid). # mount the nfs share on some other drive than the drive to be # ghosted. mount -t nfs dest_pc:/save_images /other_drive # ok. we now want to copy the whole of /dev/sda over the network # to the remote PC under source_pc_dd_save or some less ridiculous # filename. dd if=/dev/sda of=/other_drive/source_pc_dd_save and then it starts copying. but i killed it before it finished since i don't really want to spend all that time waiting for it to finish :). if you don't want the whole drive, just run dd multiple times, once for each source partition. > I am looking for something that I can use to reformat the workstations > here at work easily wherein I just have to boot the workstation from a > live-cd distro, connect it to the network and then reblast it with the > image in the network. GUI-based application would be > nice but not required. and since i didn't complete the write, i didn't test restoring either :). but from the semantics of dd it looks like it should work. good luck. tell us what tool you finally settle on. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo gquimpo*hotmail.com tiger*sni*ph http://bopolissimus.sni.ph Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" The difficult we do today. The impossible takes a little longer. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
