Can anyone offer a suggestion as to how I can backup a disk on a remote laptop running windows vista.
I've utterly destroyed the laptops screen, even plugging it into an external monitor... fails. vnc access fails as well. However due to having installed an sshd daemon with cygwin, I can ssh to the host. 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. 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. If I were to dd it to another disk, that is bigger than the remote laptops disk... Would that create a a bootable disk? Any suggestions that employ linux/unix tools? Can `dd' do something like this? Or I guess really it would be cygwin `dd' doing it. Are there any tools that can create a disk image of a remote disk? 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. 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.
