Re: Cloning my laptop's HD over the network (LG T1 Express)

2007-02-05 Thread Maxim Veksler
In reply to everyone and to end this long thread: Thank you. Mission completed. I ended up following Chaim advice and buying very cool usb2usb network connection cable, which if you continue reading will find out that was ultimately unnecessary. The story starts from the windows server side,

Re: Cloning my laptop's HD over the network (LG T1 Express)

2007-01-22 Thread Noam Meltzer
I usually use dump recover for such tasks. That way I'm only copying the relevant parts of the filesystem + I'm not dependent on a specific HD structure. On 1/21/07, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 12:02:57AM +0200, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: BTW, did you try

Re: Cloning my laptop's HD over the network (LG T1 Express)

2007-01-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:13:48PM +0200, Noam Meltzer wrote: I usually use dump recover for such tasks. That way I'm only copying the relevant parts of the filesystem + I'm not dependent on a specific HD structure. partimage does generally that: dump/restore at the block level, without

Re: Cloning my laptop's HD over the network (LG T1 Express)

2007-01-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 12:02:57AM +0200, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: BTW, did you try Knoppix instead of g4l? Also note that the partition-copying that g4l does is done by partimage. partimage is included in several other live CDs. And then again there are the methods of tar | nc --- nc | tar (or

Cloning my laptop's HD over the network (LG T1 Express)

2007-01-20 Thread Maxim Veksler
Ola list, I've decided windows deserved even less space then what it has now on my 60GB hard disk. Before stating the actual bit shifting procedure I'd like to have a cloned backup of my HD. The whole story sums up to 2 things : 1. I'm backing up into a windows based storage. Meaning I can use

Re: Cloning my laptop's HD over the network (LG T1 Express)

2007-01-20 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
These next solutions aren't _over the network_, but they don't require pulling out the HDD. 1. Connect the two machines via USB, boot the laptop with a live CD, create the image and transfer via the USB. Should be doable on-the-fly, without needing to store the image locally. I'm not sure if

Re: Cloning my laptop's HD over the network (LG T1 Express)

2007-01-20 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
BTW, did you try Knoppix instead of g4l? Also see comments below. Chaim On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:52, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: These next solutions aren't _over the network_, but they don't require pulling out the HDD. 1. Connect the two machines via USB, boot the laptop with a live CD,

Re: Cloning my laptop's HD over the network (LG T1 Express)

2007-01-20 Thread Maxim Veksler
Hi Chaim ! On 1/21/07, Chaim Keren Tzion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, did you try Knoppix instead of g4l? Actually no, I know grml[1] has support for my Agere NIC and ipw3945 WiFI card but it does not have the software used in the g4[l,u] liveCD. I haven't yet dug enough to find out what is

Re: Cloning my laptop's HD over the network (LG T1 Express)

2007-01-20 Thread Maxim Veksler
On 1/20/07, Chaim Keren Tzion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These next solutions aren't _over the network_, but they don't require pulling out the HDD. 1. Connect the two machines via USB, boot the laptop with a live CD, create the image and transfer via the USB. Should be doable on-the-fly, without

Re: Cloning my laptop's HD over the network (LG T1 Express)

2007-01-20 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
Below... On Sunday 21 January 2007 01:25, Maxim Veksler wrote: On 1/20/07, Chaim Keren Tzion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These next solutions aren't _over the network_, but they don't require pulling out the HDD. 1. Connect the two machines via USB, boot the laptop with a live CD, create