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From: mynick on 6 Feb 2010 08:10
On Feb 3, 10:58 am, Joe Beanfish <j...(a)nospam.duh> wrote:
> mynick wrote:
> > On Jan 28, 11:41 am, Joe Beanfish <j...(a)nospam.duh> wrote:
> >> habibielwa7id wrote:
> >>>> 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.
> >>> -Yes you are right, Anybody should use dd on anon mounted file system,
> >>> But I some times have to use it on a mounted file system, So some
> >>> times I use rsync after the dd to make sure I have intact and updated
> >>> version from the data, No body should use only 1 backup method, As you
> >>> may find the data later when you need it isn't Ok, So I do more than 1
> >>> backups using more than 1 method, And we should check our backup data
> >>> on a regular basis to make sure our backups are Ok, May it will save
> >>> us later. I have about 3 backups from the systems, 1 is a dd
> >>> compressed images from the hard disks, 2 is a compressed tar file for
> >>> the whole hard disks. 3 a regular rsync copies from the data across
> >>> the network through the crontab every some hours, Plus of course a
> >>> raid mechanisms on all important servers may a hard disk will crash.
> >> rsync after dd of mounted filesystem is not helpful. Corruption, not just
> >> missing data, can occur anywhere, including in the filesystem structure
> >> itself. Don't include methods that are expected to fail in your
> >> redundancy plan.- Hide quoted text -
>
> >> - Show quoted text -
>
> > so what is the verdict
> > -only the share cannot be raw imaged using dd so dd the complete
> > partition
> > (except by using win software but is there some that does not require
> > instaling an agent/client  on remote?)
> > -regardless of the fact that solely one PC will be acessing the remote
> > share after dd rsync run on local PC should be used in order to have
> > correct image
> > so back to original question -
> > is there a set of commands to  be typed exclusively on the local PC in
> > order to image remote smb://ipnumber/partition(share) in situation
> > where you do not have admin privilleges on remote win box?
>
> No. You can't do anything "raw" with a share. All you can do is
> use filesystem level tools like rsync etc.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

ok how about partition although only remote share is mapped
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