I should think so. As long as you can boot the local machine, whether by floppy, CDR, or whatever, and connect to the net, this should work just fine, imho. I think you might want to keep data on the local partition, just in case you have to dive down to repartition. Don't know how dd treats restoring to a different sized partition, wouldn't expect it would be happy with a smaller partition, and don't have any sense about a larger one because I've never tried that. On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > So, if I had a share that I wanted to backup //machine/c to a file backup via dd, I could then(probably through nfs with linux boot disks) connect to the server, and dd backup to the networked machine? > Greg > > > On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 11:57:16AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote: > > I don't know anything about using SMB tools for backing Windows up. I do > > know, from experience, that using dd to write an image of the Windows > > partition works excellently well. So, if you could build yourself a > > floppy, or a CD ROM, that booted linux with speakup and net drivers, I > > don't see why you couldn't restore a Windows machine over the net, or from > > some locally attached media. > > > > My experience using dd this way is mostly on my portable Thinkpad, where I > > keep a Windows installation in /dev/hda3. Whenever I install something on > > that partition that mucks up the Windows, I don't muss and I don't fuss. I > > just go back to linux and dd the former, pre-troublesome Windows > > installation back to /dev/hda3. Works like a charm, and it works fast. My > > restores are about 10 minutes on just over 2 gB. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Janina Sajka, Director > > Technology Research and Development > > Governmental Relations Group > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > > http://www.openebook.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
