Disk image to network drive?

Peter in New Zealand

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Jun 9, 2005, 7:30:43 PM6/9/05

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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.

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Ben Wylie

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Jun 9, 2005, 8:16:57 PM6/9/05

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I use partimage from:
http://www.partimage.org/
on the System Rescue CD
http://www.sysresccd.org/

Once you've booted into the System Rescue CD

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

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Jun 9, 2005, 8:44:34 PM6/9/05

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"Ben Wylie" <benwylie@_hotmail_.com> wrote in message
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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.

Ben Wylie

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Jun 9, 2005, 9:05:51 PM6/9/05

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I use it for ntfs partitions and haven't had any problems. I expect others
will provide alternative solutions native to Windows.

Cheers,
Ben

REM

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Jun 10, 2005, 9:36:21 AM6/10/05

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> "Peter in New Zealand" <peterb...@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.

http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/drvimagerxpsetup_2.2.html

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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Conor

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Jun 10, 2005, 10:02:46 AM6/10/05

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In article <%n5qe.6276$U4.9...@news.xtra.co.nz>, Peter in New Zealand
says...

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.

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Conor

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Ben Wylie

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Jun 10, 2005, 10:17:02 AM6/10/05

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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

Cheers,
Ben

Peter in New Zealand

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Jun 10, 2005, 6:32:37 PM6/10/05

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Many thanks. I'll give it a try and report back here if it "sees" network
drives.

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Peter in New Zealand

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Jun 10, 2005, 6:42:29 PM6/10/05

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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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