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
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