Intro
FlashEEE is a bootable small USB distro + Utility to backup the whole EEE.
It makes it easy to save/restore images of your EEE PC.
Design specs
- Works on USB Key and USB harddisk
- Can boot on FAT32 USB disk without erasing it / repartitionning it.
- Can boot on CDROM
- Can backup EEE image to:
- present USB Key,
- SD card
- USB Hard Disk,
- FTP (???)
- WebDAV (???)
- SMB / CIFS NetBios shared drive (ldd smbclient, libs, pam, ...)
- CD burn
- NFS drive
- scp / ssh to some server
- Direct upload to FlashEEE.tmplab.org ?
- Hotswappable USB key == nvram loaded == whole is 512 or less
Possible technologies
- Linux Live: www.linux-live.org
- Dyne: ramdisk / initramfs
- cbar : dd progress bar
- Simple shell scripts:
( sleep 10; dd if=XXXX) | ssh user@host.company.com "dd of=/path/to/backup/file; echo `ls -al /path/to/backup/file`"
Raw Data
Backing up manually
eeepc-phil:/> date;dd if=/dev/sda1 | bzip2 -9 | dd of=/dev/null ;date Fri Feb 15 16:19:46 CET 2008 4819437+0 records in 4819437+0 records out 2467551744 bytes (2.5 GB) copied, 2605.1 seconds, 947 kB/s 1651586+1 records in 1651586+1 records out 845612311 bytes (846 MB) copied, 2605.16 seconds, 325 kB/s Fri Feb 15 17:03:11 CET 2008 eeepc-phil:/>
