Subject: Re: backup up, ghosting a Winxp machine
From: Matthew Schumacher (schu@schu.net)
Date: Thu Oct 02 2003 - 19:33:28 AKDT
Try looking at www.partimage.org.
It is an open source partition cloning tool like ghost.
James Dory wrote:
> I've been googling and looking through the archives trying to see if I
> can backup quickly a Windows XP pro machine using something like dd.
>
> I've tried:
>
> dd if=//10.10.10.1/C$ | gzip > /tmp/win-backup
>
> and I get a file or directory not found. I tried
>
> smbclient -L 10.10.10.1
>
> and I get Sharenames like
> IPC$
> print$
> ADMIN$
> C$
> and a few others, hence the C$ above.
>
> I'm not knowing what I'm doing here much, just trying to backup a couple machines once.
> Maybe someone has a better idea. It would be best to somehow copy direct to CDR. This is
> over a lan, a couple routers.
>
> I don't know have direct access to the windows boxes but do have the admin passwords and other
> user passwords.
>
> Just can't learn this stuff quick enough.
>
> cheers, Jim
>
>
>
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