Knoppix Stuff 2

Disk Failing.. Do a network backup.

• Boot Knoppix normally.
• Mount a external USB drive:

  mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive

• or Mount a samba share with:

  mount //1.2.3.4/share -o username=Administrator,password=secret

• or any other various ways to get access to a disk other than the failing one: NFS, FTP, our netcat trick, etc..
• either mount the failing disk and copy the needed files to your mounted disk/share:

  mount /mnt/hda1; cp -a /mnt/hda1/blah/My_Documents /mnt/usbdrive/

• or (if you have enough space):

  dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/mnt/usbdrive/windrive.img

• or my favorite netcat:
  on server:

  nc -l -p 1234 > MBR.img.bz2

  on client:

  dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 | bzip2 | nc 192.168.0.1 1234