Backup your Disk Partitions

Self Image is a disk-imaging program for Windows. You can

use it to create images of files or partitions and store  them on your

local machine or even on an NBD (Network Block Device) server.

Download the program from the given link and install it. On

your NBD (Linux) server, install the RPM package-we



installed the SuSe Linux version (nbd-2.7.4-2.2.i586.rpm). After installation,

run the below commands to set up a 1000 MB file on that server and start it up

on port 1080.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/remoteImg

bs=2048 count=100000







nbd-server 1080 /mnt/remote

First create the hard disk image, then launch Self Image

and create the option to compress the file (gzip format), provide a location to

save it to. Specify the output



location as the NBD server.

To start off creating and hosting the images, you need to select the input file or drive, compress it and then provide the output location (NBD server) for the image	If a disk image file has already been created earlier, you can use that with Self Image by selecting the File option from the main window and navigating to the file
Compressing disk images is good for conserving disk space. Select the gzip format for best results	Once an NBD server is set up, you need to provide information here to connect to it so the image can be hosted

Anadi Misra