RE: Backing up all files on hdd
--- Willem-Jan Meijer <meyer3@chello.nl> escribió: > Roberto Sanchez
<mailto:rcsanchez97@yahoo.es> schreef op maandag 19 mei 2003
> 21:43:
>
> > If you have another drive that is larger than the one your system is
> > on, you can do something like this (substituting for your
> > corresponding partitions):
> >
> > dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1
> >
> > or, to save an image if somewhere, dd if=/dev/hda1
> > of=/some/other/drive/file.ext
> >
> > Swap the second drive into the spot of the first and toss the old
> > drive.
> >
> > -Roberto Sanchez
>
>
> My server has only one hdd, it has no cd-recorder so I want to backup to
> a network share in windows xp, //WILLEM-JAN/backup/
>
> dd if=/dev/hda1 of=//WILLEM-JAN/backup doesn't work, it says "no such file
> or directory". How can I make a backup from my hdd to //WILLEM-JAN/backup/
>
I am not sure how the whole linux talking to a windows share thing works.
But, if you have more than 50% free space on your servers hdd, you can create
a new partition and dd to that, then copy the resulting file to your windows
share using the regular procedures for copying to a windows share.
> HTH,
>
> -WJ
>
> Windows: Where do you want to go today?
> MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow?
> Linux: Are you coming or what?
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-Roberto Sanchez
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