Re: [OT] Backup windows 7 to Rescue the user!

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.

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