[plug] backing up and restoring hard drive image

[Brad Campbell]

Jason wrote:
> greetings all.
> 
> the hard drive in my laptop has decided to die (this is the laptop's second hard drive - the first failed in a similar fashion) and I need to return 
> the hard drive for warranty purposes, but won't get a new drive until they confirm the hard drive is b0rked.
> 
> I want to dd the hard drive to create a backup image and store that on another machine, then, once I get the new hard drive, restore that image so 
> the computer won't realise anything has happened.
> 
> can anyone recommend a distro that I can boot from a cd which will allow me to ftp the backup image into some form of temporary FS, either on 
> the drive or in memory, which I can then restore using dd?

You will need either a networked machine, or USB drive or similar to back it up onto.. but something 
like Knoppix will fill the bill nicely as a boot disk to do what you need.

Brad
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