Disk image to network drive?

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Peter in New Zealand

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.
 
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
 
Ben Wylie said:
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
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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.
 
Peter said:
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.
Click to expand...

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" <[email protected]> wrote:
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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.
Click to expand...
Using Windows XP Pro SP2 on all machines.
Click to expand...

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.
 
Peter in New Zealand said:
Thanks for your help. I'm a little scared off by the statement that it is
"experimental" for NTFS, which all my partitions are.
Click to expand...

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 said:
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.
Click to expand...

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.
 
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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