backing up a lin/win box via drive imaging

[steven meyer]

I have a custom version of Knoppix that may work quite well for you.
It's been cut down to about 450MB and will allow you to boot and mount a
network drive as well as the local drives. You can then copy your data
whereever you want to.

My contribution;
1- boot from external CDROM (via USB)
2- removed the clutter of applications for a much cleaner UI

If anyone is interested, I will be happy to send a copy to you.

Steven Meyer
M.Y.DATAppliance Ltd

On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 00:49, Tim Writer wrote:
> Byron Sonne <blsonne-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> writes:
> 
> > I'm looking for a freeware or free-for-personal-use rescue disk/cd or
> > software that I can boot from and that will create an image of the whole
> > drive and be able to direct it to an NFS or SMB share or something like that.
> 
> KNOPPIX isn't intended for that purpose specifically but it shouldn't be too
> difficult to customize.  I believe it can load a custom configuration from
> floppy.  I'm guessing it would be relatively easy to make that custom
> configuration do your backup.  The advantage of KNOPPIX is that it's a very
> complete distribution with excellent hardware detection so it will run on
> lots of oddball hardware and has "all" the tools available.

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