dd command for remote disk copy?
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From: Chris Davies on 22 Jan 2010 06:29 mynick <anglomont(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Imaging-copying a working remote share on WindowsNT to a local Linux > disk target is needed. Clarification required: Once the imaging/copying has been completed, do you intend to mount the resulting *NTFS* partition on the Linux box? Or do you intend that the files should be copied from the remote (presumably NTFS) share, onto a local native (e.g. ext3) filesystem? One can be handled with imaging. Both can be handled with file copying. > Is that possible with dd command I'm puzzled how you would intend to run dd and netcat on a Windows host. Chris
From: mynick on 22 Jan 2010 07:51 On Jan 22, 3:29 am, Chris Davies <chris-use...(a)roaima.co.uk> wrote: > mynick <anglom...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > Imaging-copying a working remote share on WindowsNT to a localLinux > > disk target is needed. > > Clarification required: > > Once the imaging/copying has been completed, do you intend to mount the > resulting *NTFS* partition on theLinuxbox? Or do you intend that the > files should be copied from the remote (presumably NTFS) share, onto a > local native (e.g. ext3) filesystem? > > One can be handled with imaging. Both can be handled with file copying. > > > Is that possible with dd command > > I'm puzzled how you would intend to run dd and netcat on a Windows host. > Chris Would like to have raw image of the connected-visible remote shared folder as a backup and to be able to restore it to local disk there is dd and netcat win version
From: Joe Beanfish on 22 Jan 2010 12:38 mynick wrote: > On Jan 22, 3:29 am, Chris Davies <chris-use...(a)roaima.co.uk> wrote: >> mynick <anglom...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>> Imaging-copying a working remote share on WindowsNT to a localLinux >>> disk target is needed. >> Clarification required: >> >> Once the imaging/copying has been completed, do you intend to mount the >> resulting *NTFS* partition on theLinuxbox? Or do you intend that the >> files should be copied from the remote (presumably NTFS) share, onto a >> local native (e.g. ext3) filesystem? >> >> One can be handled with imaging. Both can be handled with file copying. >> >>> Is that possible with dd command >> I'm puzzled how you would intend to run dd and netcat on a Windows host. >> Chris > > Would like to have raw image of the connected-visible remote shared > folder as a backup and to be able to restore it to local disk > there is dd and netcat win version I'm not sure what the share has to do with anything. You need to read the raw device directly on the windows box. You can send the data wherever for storage. But copying a live mounted filesystem with dd is likely to be corrupt because chances are something on the filesystem will change part way through the copy causing you to get part old and part new data.
From: Chris Davies on 22 Jan 2010 16:41 mynick <anglomont(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Would like to have raw image of the connected-visible remote shared > folder as a backup and to be able to restore it to local disk > there is dd and netcat win version If it's a shared folder within a partition, the chances of being able to anything even slightly useful with dd (or any other raw copy), other than copy the entire partition, are negligible. It sounds to me that you'd be better off with one of the following: * Performing a file-by-file copy between the systems * Using a (probably commercial) Windows-aware filesystem backup application Chris
From: Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen on 22 Jan 2010 17:02
Chris Davies wrote: > mynick <anglomont(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> Would like to have raw image of the connected-visible remote shared >> folder as a backup and to be able to restore it to local disk >> there is dd and netcat win version > > If it's a shared folder within a partition, the chances of being able > to anything even slightly useful with dd (or any other raw copy), other > than copy the entire partition, are negligible. > > It sounds to me that you'd be better off with one of the following: > > * Performing a file-by-file copy between the systems > * Using a (probably commercial) Windows-aware filesystem backup > application > > Chris Boot on a livecd with clonezilla on the windows box. |