[TriLUG] image of hard drive question

[Len Boyle]

Bryan 

What version/release of windows is it?

You might be able to use the built in windows backup command to back it up to disk space on the linux box. 

Or use one of the open source backup products.

len

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Pearson
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 11:37 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] image of hard drive question

It's interesting this conversation has started, I am in the midst of replacing a dying hard drive in my wife's laptop. Heard it clicking recently, and with no backup solution in place, it's usage is off limits for the time being until I can get it replaced.

Which brings me to, any suggestions for methods to backup a Windows machine to a Linux server? I've looked at solutions like crashplan, but I'd like to avoid vender lock-in.

I'll keep "gnu ddrescue" in mind if some blocks have been lost.

Thanks,
Bryan

Bryan


On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Bill Farrow <bill at arrowsreach.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Carl Crider <c.crider at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Personal favorite:     www.ultimatebootcd.com
>
> Does the UltimateBootCD have my favorite hard drive data recovery tool 
> "gnu ddrescue" ?
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
>
> I use ddrescue to salvage data from a dying hard drive. It does a 
> great job with bad blocks on the drive, re-reading them several times 
> in order to extract every last byte from a failing block.
>
> Bill
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