From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OIIwP-0004Rq-Vk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 29 May 2010 10:06:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5552DE0531; Sat, 29 May 2010 10:06:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF59E0531 for ; Sat, 29 May 2010 10:06:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so544189wwi.40 for ; Sat, 29 May 2010 03:06:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=RA8QHxdHcnQOepHyvvHHrcLz3a5lbeAurPApO7I5Ay4=; b=QtgOe935BcTP/br4rLE2Xedcqha3edJrlweVaza5d/mfCBuFmXlW1ydZ+T7aYoXeSj zakI0DQsiaXpgbiiQAQ396X5F9kb/LfZqk+RcNuOmM3KD1JoMP2BZ5T1CO/lQs//92Wd u1LUQY2/tfDTEeTtfV0lxeMvlZ+RL+NP46mTY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=csJX96FcnHEb67ays3QfHyB2SLEy3aVtjdJvLygws0D8A3qSFJhkSXX5AOFzWDmk1f 5wF3XXF4lFe49XEhTlB1X9Xruauplp3FmDiMOrLA2KNSEFhmyXnF9s8zXM6qB18X5sDT gA1CpPSnOknvXLIWVMWYktn2/zEKWm1huEHro= Received: by 10.227.133.199 with SMTP id g7mr1389621wbt.161.1275127590264; Sat, 29 May 2010 03:06:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y31sm23541025wby.4.2010.05.29.03.06.28 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 29 May 2010 03:06:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] I could use some OT coaching... retrieve laptop os remotely Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 11:06:27 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.33-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.3.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <87hblr4edw.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87hblr4edw.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart8522624.3sECqyxjnS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201005291106.28409.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: e918fa5b-1d9d-43d8-9189-4dad50a85a74 X-Archives-Hash: fb0e213480748285d28bcbee5a010379 --nextPart8522624.3sECqyxjnS Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 29 May 2010 03:42:51 Harry Putnam wrote: > Can anyone offer a suggestion as to how I can backup a disk on a > remote laptop running windows vista. >=20 > I've utterly destroyed the laptops screen, even plugging it into an > external monitor... fails. vnc access fails as well. Isn't this an indication that more than the screen was damaged? Did you tr= y=20 pressing Fn+F4 or whatever the appropriate key is to activate the external= =20 monitor? Did you try rebooting just for good measure? The VNC access may fail if you have set it up to need confirmation by a=20 currently logged in user, before a remote connection is allowed. Have you tried using rdesktop from a linux machine? That should allow you = to=20 access your Vista remotely (unless you had seriously locked down who can=20 remotely access your MSWindows OS) as a normal user. > However due to having installed an sshd daemon with cygwin, I can ssh > to the host. >=20 > I thought maybe I'd be able to run a version of Norton ghost that is > installed on the laptop... by ssh in, and from a cygwin shell, but > that doesn't appear to work. I'm not sure if ghost 14 can even be run > from a command line. >=20 > I guess I'd like to clone the disk so I'd have access to all of it, > and could even put the clone on another host and boot it. It is unlikely that you will be able to do this with Vista. The hardware o= n=20 which the Vista installation was performed will not allow you to boot it on= =20 different hardware, at least not until you re-register the product by re- entering your Vista registration code. As I am guessing that the Vista=20 installation was an OEM job, you will find that you cannot register it for= =20 different hardware. Then MSWindows will kindly ask you if you want to=20 purchase another registration ... > If I were to dd it to another disk, that is bigger > than the remote laptops disk... Would that create a a bootable disk? No, see above. > Any suggestions that employ linux/unix tools? Can `dd' do something > like this? Or I guess really it would be cygwin `dd' doing it. >=20 > Are there any tools that can create a disk image of a remote disk? There are many cloning solutions and some of them come with LiveCDs. I wou= ld=20 recommend SystemRescueCD with an external terminal, which also has partimag= e=20 on it and you can use it to create an image of the drive on a remote server. > I've found that neither norton ghost 14 or 15 will do it if the disk > is on a remote host. In fact neither of them will even backup files > if they are remote... I mean if the source files are remote. They can > backup onboard files to remote targets... but not the other way > round. >=20 > Of course I can rsync the files and save the data that way, but I'd > like to save the disk as a bootable os if possible. Notwithstanding the above, I'd try to use rdesktop, or krdc to login remote= ly=20 to your Vista box. It may also be worth looking at ebay or the OEM's websi= te=20 to see now much a replacement screen costs. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart8522624.3sECqyxjnS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkwA5yQACgkQVTDTR3kpaLb/GwCgiiRdcKkq562vkG/uN6yTIWoV lsQAoK4/4fIydX84L6z3Gm6RUy63rDly =sLyc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart8522624.3sECqyxjnS--