Win Offline Backup-EN

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Introduction

This guide explains how to make a backup of a unbootable windows partition (for example windows crash, virus, corrupted drivers, etc.), for reinstall the operating system without lose the user data. If is the first time that you use PoliArch, you should read the Quick guide

Step 1

First download and burn (see point 1) PoliArch or use the USB drive procedure (see point 2).

1. Download and burning PoliArch (If you want to run the procedure from CD/DVD)
2. Installation on USB drive (If you want to run the procedure from USB)

Step 2

Access to Windows partition

Identify the disk

First you have to identify the partition containing the files to save. Linux uses different names for disks than windows, so you see /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2 instead of C: o D:. To detect disks and partitions is enough to run the probe of fsarchiver, the output should be similar to this:

# fsarchiver probe -v

[=====DEVICE=====] [==FILESYS==] [=====LABEL=====] [====SIZE====] [MAX] [MIN]
[/dev/sda1       ] [ntfs       ] [SYSTEM         ] [    25.00 GB] [  8] [  1]
[/dev/sda2       ] [ntfs       ] [Data           ] [   120.00 GB] [  8] [  5]
[/dev/sda3       ] [ntfs       ] [Backup         ] [    70.00 GB] [  8] [  6]

In this case we have three partitions (but the situation can be different); The first column shows the device name (you will need it for the mount operation)

Access to the right partition

You must make accessible and navigable the device from the system. Let's suppose that you want to save the content of "Data" partition (so /dev/sda2), you should go on in this way:

Create a mount point:

# mkdir /mnt/windows_data

Then mount the device:

# ntfs-3g -o ro /dev/sda2 /mnt/windows_data

Note: The "ro" parameter is needed to mount the filesystem in read only mode (so to avoid content damages).

So you can see the partition content:

# ls -l /mnt/windows_data
dr-x------ 1 root root        0 2012-02-01 13:45 Documents
dr-x------ 1 root root        0 2012-04-18 17:21 History

Save data

Now you can copy all the interesting files on a different device/partition (for example an USB drive/hd) or using the network (for example using samba, sftp, ftp).

Saving on a different device

If you want to save your data on HDD-USB/Pendrive proceed in this way:

• Attach the pendrive/HDD
• Detect the device (see the section: "Identify the disk")
• Create a mountpoint (see: "Create a mount point"; for example /mnt/pendrive)
• Mount the device on the new mount point (see: "Mount the device")
• Copy the data with rsync, cp, ecc.. (for example cp -rfv /mnt/windows_data/ /mnt/pendrive/)
• Unmount the device (HDD/pendrive):

# cd ; umount /mnt/pendrive

• Unmount the disk partition:

# cd ; umount /mnt/windows_data

Save using the network

First you need to configure the network, then you can see Accessing network shares and proceed with:

• Copy the data with rsync, cp, etc.. (for example cp -rfv /mnt/windows_data/ /mnt/share/)
• Unmount the device (HDD/pendrive):

# cd ; umount /mnt/pendrive

• Unmount the disk partition:

# cd ; umount /mnt/windows_data

Step 3

When the data save/copy operations are ended:

# cd ; umount /mnt/*
# reboot

Step 4

Now you can remove the PoliArch CD/DVD/USB and start the system recovery/reinstallation operations. At the end, you can restore the files previously saved simply doing copy/paste from your HDD-USB/USB to your Hard-Disk.

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