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<H2 style="font-size: 2em;"><a name="backup-smb-intro"></a>Getting backups on Samba <span class="hideprint">[<a href="#backup-smb-top" title="go to top of the page">^</a>]</span></H2> |
<H2 style="font-size: 2em;"><a name="backup-smb-intro"></a>Getting backups on Samba <span class="hideprint">[<a href="#backup-smb-top" title="go to top of the page">^</a>]</span></H2> |
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<p>What if you don't have a spare local disk or partition or a USB disk? How will you be able to get a backup of your system? Well, if your PC is on the same LAN with another PC running Windows (or linux), you can use <b>Samba</b> to save your image file on that remote PC (which we will call <b>Samba server</b> from now on).<br><br> |
<p>What if you don't have a spare local disk or partition or a USB disk? How will you be able to get a backup of your system? Well, if your PC is on the same LAN with another PC running Windows (or linux), you can use <b>Samba</b> to save your image file on that remote PC (which we will call <b>Samba server</b> from now on).<br><br> |
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Using <b>Samba</b> you will be able to mount a Windows share resource (or Samba share resource), from within <b>Clonezilla Live</b>, and save the image file there. Then you can boot that PC using <b>SystemRescueCD</b> and create a restore DVD.<br><br> |
Using <b>Samba</b> you will be able to mount a Windows share resource (or Samba share resource), from within <b>Clonezilla Live</b>, and save the image file there. Then you can boot that PC using <b>SystemRescueCD</b> and create a restore DVD.<br><br> |
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In this page I will demonstrate the creation of an image file by getting a backup of my Windows partition (<b>/dev/<font color="Red">hda1</font></b>). The image file will be save in my Samba server which is my laptop (ip: <b><font color="Red">10.0.0.2</font></b>, Windows share resource name: <b><font color="Red">data</font></b>). |
In this page I will demonstrate the creation of an image file by getting a backup of my second disk (<b>/dev/<font color="Red">hdb</font></b>). The image file will be save in my Samba server which is my laptop (ip: <b><font color="Red">10.0.0.3</font></b>, Windows share resource name: <b><font color="Red">all_my_images</font></b>). |
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<H3><a name="what-is"></a>What is Samba? [<a href="#backup-smb-top" title="go to top of the page">^</a>]</H3> |
<H3><a name="what-is"></a>What is Samba? [<a href="#backup-smb-top" title="go to top of the page">^</a>]</H3> |
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<p>We read at <a href="http://us1.samba.org/samba/" target="_blank">http://us1.samba.org/samba/</a>:</p> |
<p>We read at <a href="http://us1.samba.org/samba/" target="_blank">http://us1.samba.org/samba/</a>:</p> |