[LUNI] [OT] Backup windows 7 to Rescue the user!

[Craig Van Tassle]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:17:05 -0600
"W. Scott Lockwood III" <scott at guppylog.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 21:56 -0600, Craig Van Tassle wrote:
> > I'm trying to find a good way to backup a Windows 7 to a NFS/Samba
> > share. But I also need a way to access the files as needed. Does
> > anyone
> > have a good way to do that? 
> > 
> > After this is done I will be rescuing the system from Windows and
> > moving the user over to ubuntu. 
> 
> dd if=/dev/<windows partition> of=windows.iso bs=1M
> 
> The resulting iso image can then be moved and mounted as you like,
> including being mounted and then shared via Samba.
> 
> Note: Be sure to replace <windows partition> with whatever the windows
> partition is, I.E. /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/hda1 etc.
> 

I also will lose any on my desktop that is not used by windows. Not to
mention Windows 7 does some strange things with the partitions tables.

I was looking for something that can give me access to the data, but
still be able restore the system to it's current state if it does go
pear shaped.

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