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Can anyone offer a suggestion as to how I can backup a disk on a |
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remote laptop running windows vista. |
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I've utterly destroyed the laptops screen, even plugging it into an |
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external monitor... fails. vnc access fails as well. |
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However due to having installed an sshd daemon with cygwin, I can ssh |
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to the host. |
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I thought maybe I'd be able to run a version of Norton ghost that is |
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installed on the laptop... by ssh in, and from a cygwin shell, but |
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that doesn't appear to work. I'm not sure if ghost 14 can even be run |
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from a command line. |
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I guess I'd like to clone the disk so I'd have access to all of it, |
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and could even put the clone on another host and boot it. |
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If I were to dd it to another disk, that is bigger |
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than the remote laptops disk... Would that create a a bootable disk? |
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Any suggestions that employ linux/unix tools? Can `dd' do something |
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like this? Or I guess really it would be cygwin `dd' doing it. |
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Are there any tools that can create a disk image of a remote disk? |
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I've found that neither norton ghost 14 or 15 will do it if the disk |
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is on a remote host. In fact neither of them will even backup files |
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if they are remote... I mean if the source files are remote. They can |
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backup onboard files to remote targets... but not the other way |
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round. |
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Of course I can rsync the files and save the data that way, but I'd |
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like to save the disk as a bootable os if possible. |
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