USB bootable disk imaging (Linux and Windows) that backs up to CIFS shares?

[VirtualLarry]

Is there such a product? Preferably in the form of a bootable Linux tool / distro?

 

[jolancer]

I havn't used them all but i assume most if not all are USB bootable these days. if one doesn't come with its own application to extract to USB, unetbootin or universal-usb-installer maybe able to put the linux image on to USB for you.

i also have not personally used clonezilla which i think does both linux and windows filesystems. but i do know most if not all distro's already have the commands:
$ dd
$ partimage
$ ntfsclone

depending on which part your questioning, it would then be easyer to elaborate

 

[Cerb]

Clonezilla.

http://mylinuxramblings.wordpress.c...eenas-or-network-share-to-backup-a-hard-disk/

I've never done Samba with it, but there's a howto, and the server using FreeNAS shouldn't matter. You can do custom boot parameters for it to get to set up the network and mount shares, but actually making that work is beyond me (I'd love to, among other cloning and backing up options, but have no GbE at work).