How to make an image(backup) of a disk/partition to a remote PardusPC.

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Used hardware and software 3 Menu item activation in Clonezilla. 4 Making the backup to the remote PardusPC

Introduction

When you want to do a new installation(dual boot) of Pardus on a computer(WinPC) which already has another OS(Windows), it is highly recommended to make an image(backup) of the disk/partition.

The problem is where to put this image?

In this manual I will use a Clonezilla liveCD to make and write the backup to a remote PardusPC.

Used hardware and software

To make the image I use a LiveCD with clonezilla-live-1.2.1-17.iso which can be downloaded from http://www.clonezilla.org/download/sourceforge/

I use a second computer with an active Pardus 2008 OS.

The two computers are connected with each other via a router(Sitecom WL-535) and LAN cables.

The PardusPC must have an active samba setup as discibed in http://en.pardus-wiki.org/HOWTO:SambaNetwork

"Making /home/samba (share) writable" is important.

From the PardusPC we need to know the administrator password and the IP address.

To show the IP address select the Network-applet in the system tray.

Menu item activation in Clonezilla.

Menu items with [ ]:go to the item with the arrow keys, hit the spacebar ([ ]>[*]) and activate with the [Enter] key. Menu items without [ ]:go to the item with the arrow keys and activate with the [Enter] key.

Making the backup to the remote PardusPC

Boot the WinPC with the Clonezilla liveCD.

Here is a list of the menu items with my input between ().

1. Select your language.
2. Don't touch keymap.
3. Start_Clonezilla
4. device-image
5. samba_server
6. dhcp
7. IP address ... (modify = IP address of the PardusPC)
8. Domain in the samba server ... (leave empty)
9. Account in server ... (accept default=administrator)
10. The directory where.... (modify = /share)
11. Now you have to enter the password for ... (administrator password of the PardusPC)
12. saveparts
13. Input a name to save the image ... (whatever you want, this will be the name of the directory of the image)
14. Choose the source partition ... (select the partition you want to image)
15. Which clone program(s) ... (accept default)
16. Set advanced parameters ... (accept default)
17. Choose the compression ... (accept default=-z1)
18. The size (MB) to split ... (accept default=2000)
19. The action when client ... (accept default)
20. Are you sure you want ... (y)

Wait .......and at the end make your Start over/Poweroff option.