Just got back in to here after a crash lost me all recent posts, so please forgive me if this has been asked and answered recently. I am looking for a disk image prog that will enable me to image to a network drive. I have tried two recently that came on magazine cover disks, but neither would do it to a network drive. Any suggestions please? TIA.
-- Peter in New Zealand. (Pull the plug out to reply.) Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and compulsive computer fiddler.
Type: mkdir /mnt/win Type: mount -t smbfs -o lfs -o username=USERNAME //SERVERNAME/SHARENAME /mnt/win/ Where USERNAME is the username of a user able to access to share Where SERVERNAME is the network computer name Where SHARENAME is the name of the share You will then be prompted for a password for the user Type: cd /mnt/win Type partimage
From there you can backup the contents of a hard drive onto a network share.
> Just got back in to here after a crash lost me all recent posts, so > please forgive me if this has been asked and answered recently. I am > looking for a disk image prog that will enable me to image to a > network drive. I have tried two recently that came on magazine cover > disks, but neither would do it to a network drive. Any suggestions > please? TIA.
> Type: > mkdir /mnt/win > Type: > mount -t smbfs -o lfs -o username=USERNAME //SERVERNAME/SHARENAME > /mnt/win/ > Where USERNAME is the username of a user able to access to share > Where SERVERNAME is the network computer name > Where SHARENAME is the name of the share > You will then be prompted for a password for the user > Type: > cd /mnt/win > Type > partimage
> From there you can backup the contents of a hard drive onto a network > share.
> HTH > Ben
> Peter in New Zealand wrote: >> Just got back in to here after a crash lost me all recent posts, so >> please forgive me if this has been asked and answered recently. I am >> looking for a disk image prog that will enable me to image to a >> network drive. I have tried two recently that came on magazine cover >> disks, but neither would do it to a network drive. Any suggestions >> please? TIA.
Thanks for your help. I'm a little scared off by the statement that it is "experimental" for NTFS, which all my partitions are. Looking at my original post I see I totally forgot to even mention my OS, for which I apologise. And old dog like me should have known better.
Using Windows XP Pro SP2 on all machines.
-- Peter in New Zealand. (Pull the plug out to reply.) Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and compulsive computer fiddler.
>> Type: >> mkdir /mnt/win >> Type: >> mount -t smbfs -o lfs -o username=USERNAME //SERVERNAME/SHARENAME >> /mnt/win/ >> Where USERNAME is the username of a user able to access to share >> Where SERVERNAME is the network computer name >> Where SHARENAME is the name of the share >> You will then be prompted for a password for the user >> Type: >> cd /mnt/win >> Type >> partimage
>> From there you can backup the contents of a hard drive onto a network >> share.
>> HTH >> Ben
>> Peter in New Zealand wrote: >>> Just got back in to here after a crash lost me all recent posts, so >>> please forgive me if this has been asked and answered recently. I am >>> looking for a disk image prog that will enable me to image to a >>> network drive. I have tried two recently that came on magazine cover >>> disks, but neither would do it to a network drive. Any suggestions >>> please? TIA.
> Thanks for your help. I'm a little scared off by the statement that > it is "experimental" for NTFS, which all my partitions are. Looking > at my original post I see I totally forgot to even mention my OS, for > which I apologise. And old dog like me should have known better.
> Using Windows XP Pro SP2 on all machines.
I use it for ntfs partitions and haven't had any problems. I expect others will provide alternative solutions native to Windows.
> "Peter in New Zealand" <peterbalp...@xtra.co.nz> wrote: >Thanks for your help. I'm a little scared off by the statement that it is >"experimental" for NTFS, which all my partitions are. Looking at my original >post I see I totally forgot to even mention my OS, for which I apologise. >And old dog like me should have known better. >Using Windows XP Pro SP2 on all machines.
I've used this to image and restore my boot drive, but I don't have a network. As long as it can see your network drives I'd think that it will work superbly.
The images are larger than other image programs, as it images the entire partition, rather than just the space used on the disk.
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> > Type: > > mkdir /mnt/win > > Type: > > mount -t smbfs -o lfs -o username=USERNAME //SERVERNAME/SHARENAME > > /mnt/win/ > > Where USERNAME is the username of a user able to access to share > > Where SERVERNAME is the network computer name > > Where SHARENAME is the name of the share > > You will then be prompted for a password for the user > > Type: > > cd /mnt/win > > Type > > partimage
> > From there you can backup the contents of a hard drive onto a network > > share.
> > HTH > > Ben
> > Peter in New Zealand wrote: > >> Just got back in to here after a crash lost me all recent posts, so > >> please forgive me if this has been asked and answered recently. I am > >> looking for a disk image prog that will enable me to image to a > >> network drive. I have tried two recently that came on magazine cover > >> disks, but neither would do it to a network drive. Any suggestions > >> please? TIA.
> Thanks for your help. I'm a little scared off by the statement that it is > "experimental" for NTFS, which all my partitions are.
Only the write directly to a NTFS partition is dodgy but that refers to Linux writing to a NTFS partition on the same computer...when done across a network, the host OS of the machine with the partition in does the writing.
-- Conor
"Be incomprehensible. If they can't understand, they can't disagree"
Conor wrote: >> Thanks for your help. I'm a little scared off by the statement that >> it is "experimental" for NTFS, which all my partitions are.
> Only the write directly to a NTFS partition is dodgy but that refers > to Linux writing to a NTFS partition on the same computer...when done > across a network, the host OS of the machine with the partition in > does the writing.
Apparently even that should work now, using something like: mount.captive-ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
Many thanks. I'll give it a try and report back here if it "sees" network drives.
-- Peter in New Zealand. (Pull the plug out to reply.) Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and compulsive computer fiddler.
-- Peter in New Zealand. (Pull the plug out to reply.) Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and compulsive computer fiddler.
>> "Peter in New Zealand" <peterbalp...@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>>Thanks for your help. I'm a little scared off by the statement that it is >>"experimental" for NTFS, which all my partitions are. Looking at my >>original >>post I see I totally forgot to even mention my OS, for which I apologise. >>And old dog like me should have known better.
>>Using Windows XP Pro SP2 on all machines.
> I've used this to image and restore my boot drive, but I don't have a > network. As long as it can see your network drives I'd think that it > will work superbly.
> The images are larger than other image programs, as it images the > entire partition, rather than just the space used on the disk.
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Yep, it seems to see the network drives OK. Brilliant! Many thanks to all those who took the time to respond. I am grateful.
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> Many thanks. I'll give it a try and report back here if it "sees" network > drives.
> -- > Peter in New Zealand. (Pull the plug out to reply.) > Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and > compulsive computer fiddler.
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>>> "Peter in New Zealand" <peterbalp...@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>>>Thanks for your help. I'm a little scared off by the statement that it is >>>"experimental" for NTFS, which all my partitions are. Looking at my >>>original >>>post I see I totally forgot to even mention my OS, for which I apologise. >>>And old dog like me should have known better.
>>>Using Windows XP Pro SP2 on all machines.
>> I've used this to image and restore my boot drive, but I don't have a >> network. As long as it can see your network drives I'd think that it >> will work superbly.
>> The images are larger than other image programs, as it images the >> entire partition, rather than just the space used on the disk.
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