[TriLUG] image of hard drive question

[Bryan Pearson]

Len,

It's a Windows XP machine, possibly Professional, but I dont recall.

I'm more curious about some open source solutions.

Bryan

Bryan


On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Len Boyle <Len.Boyle at sas.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Bryan Pearson
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 11:37 AM
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> 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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