Re: Backing up all files on hdd

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

Willem-Jan Meijer wrote:
> 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/
Be really careful about this: you'll lose Unix file ownerships nnd 
protections, because the target filesystem (FAT32 most likely) doesn't 
have those.