On October 13, 2004 07:24 pm, Bill Reid wrote this amazing epistle:
Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
Now things are working the way we hoped the next step is for me to see what can possibly be done. Samba is configured and running. Apache is running but not tweaked. I want to do some file sharing and backup of an uncooperative Windows ME box (small harddrive). Perhaps even set up a game of something on the Linux side. I also have some of Macs (two don't have ethernet cards but the "fastest" one does). Any suggestions? Easy to understand manuals would help too. ;-)
Description: Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX utility which saves partitions in many formats (see below) to an image file. The image file can be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and split into multiple files to be copied on removable floppies (ZIP for example), ... Partitions can be saved across the network since version 0.6.0.
Partition Image will only copy data from the used portions of the partition. For speed and efficiency, free blocks are not written to the image file. This is unlike the 'dd' command, which also copies empty blocks. Partition Image also works for large, very full partitions. For example, a full 1 GB partition can be compressed with gzip down to 400MB.
Thanks. I think I'll give it a try this weekend.
I can't believe how close I was to getting things going all this time... ;-)
Later Mike