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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Peter in New Zealand. (Pull the plug out to reply.)
Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and
compulsive computer fiddler.

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 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.

"Ben Wylie" <benwylie@_hotmail_.com> wrote in message
news:ZZ4qe.10755$(E-Mail Removed)...
>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 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.

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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 wrote:
> "Ben Wylie" <benwylie@_hotmail_.com> wrote in message
> news:ZZ4qe.10755$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> 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 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.

Cheers,
Ben

> "Peter in New Zealand" <(E-Mail Removed)> 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/drv...setup_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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In article <%n5qe.6276$(E-Mail Removed)>, Peter in New Zealand
says...
> "Ben Wylie" <benwylie@_hotmail_.com> wrote in message
> news:ZZ4qe.10755$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >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 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

Cheers,
Ben

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

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Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and
compulsive computer fiddler.

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"REM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
>> "Peter in New Zealand" <(E-Mail Removed)> 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/drv...setup_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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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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"Peter in New Zealand" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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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.
>
> --
> Peter in New Zealand. (Pull the plug out to reply.)
> Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and
> compulsive computer fiddler.
> "REM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>>> "Peter in New Zealand" <(E-Mail Removed)> 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/drv...setup_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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