Help seting up backup and Help w/ my pcmcia card

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I'll start first with the backup. I have an working system on my old dell 1996 laptop and would like to back up the entire system, however i only have 4 gig harddrive and 2.1 is already ate up, and there's no cdrom burner, and a usb cdrom burner is not an option. i know of no one who has linux on an system that can burn cdroms. but i know many friends with systems with window xp pro or something along these lines who can burn the backups cdroms for me however, my problem is how to backup and transfer that backup to windows.

now i know there is sambra but i would prefer to stay away from any of those because this will be only an onice in a long while type of setup and i'm trying to conserverse space on my laptop only got about 1.9 gig left and i want to keep as much room avaiable for tmp etc... anyway.

i'm wondering if there is a way i can tar/compact my system and send that file on the fly to an second system over the ethernet.

guess im looking for a tool for the windows side of the thing that can capture that stream and write it to disk, then when im done i can take that and burn it to cdrom. probably will need to spilt it into several pieces, and if i do that, how will i be able to rebuild system.

ie i would put in livecd and wipe harddrive clean then start to copy the files out of the tar file on the cdrom but if it spanns multiple cdroms will the tar program automaticaly ask for the next volume?



anyway now to my second problem. here's the strange thing. i have been expermenting with my firewall and finally got an good config up and running, but the problem is it seems like onice every so many hour or something, i no longer can connect to the itnernet untill i reset my firewall. the reason why i have to reset it is because it uses SED and GREP to capture the ip information from that ethernet interfance and use that ip information to help restrict the data flow even more to make system more secure, anyway i'm using dhcp to get my ip address, so is there a way that i can setup the firewall script to rerun every time the dhcp reacquates its ip address? and if dhcp is off as in i'm traveling with no connection, the firewall won't reload every n hour.


now to my third problem which is the pcmcia card. its odd. my pcmcia card was working perfectly as eth1 and everything would work just fine, anyway i finally got around to setup a new kernel with ipsec and iptable supports and so forth, anyway pcmcia suddently quit working, i mean the pcmcia_cs still works i rebuild it by reemerging it and it detects the card everything but for some reason the eth1 interfence never is bult or load up so i went back to my old kernel and rebuild pcmcia_cs again and same problem here. appearly i did something to make the eth1 interfance vanish. and i can't figure out what it could be. because pcmcia_cs works fine, and my kernel options the only thing i changed was the addition of ipsec, iptables, and a few more security enchancement in the grsecurity patch.


and oh yes one final odd problem, is mozilla-firefox was working perfectly untill this morning after i reemerged pcmcia_cs then whenever i try to create a new post at this forum, it freezes and i have to kill its process to get it to work again. it happens when i click on the subject field to fill it in, anyway using links right now.

thanks for your help

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Anyway on the subject of mozilla-firefox i discovered if i fill or click on any textbox or anything in it other than links it will freeze up, any ideas?

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i rebult the kernel to include some hardcoded drivers, and used 2.6.5 and also re emerged pcmcia-cs and did many thing but nothing of them has been able to bring back my dead eth1 interfance so i'm wondering what happened here, appearly it still works cause cardctl still detects and reconizes it.

shortly after this problem appear i decided to boot to live cdrom so i could do an e2fsck on the harddrive and strip and rebuild the swap partition and everything turnes out to be fine, but i did notice something odd, the dma seems to be broken for my system when i boot from harddrive the max buffered transfer rate i get is 6 mb/sec but from livecdrom i get 9-10 mb/sec and dma is enabled so i think its an kernel problem so i got to work on that one but my number one pirority is to get that pcmcia ethernet to work. it was working just fine untill i started to work on my firewall then it vanished, so i'm wondering what happened there.

now on the topic of mozilla firefox whenever i click on any text field or so forth, or try to open a new tab or window it freezes and i have to kill it.

and i'm still needing help on the backup part cuz i already spent lots of time on this system, fyi compling from stage 1 is slow on an 366 mhz so i would like to back this system up thanks

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*bump*

still need help in this regard, i'm going to be moving soon to 2.6.5 kernel from the 2.4.25 and i'll see if that fixes this pcmcia problem i'm having but i highly doubit it but its worth a shot.

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hello?? anyone even bothering to read this thread?


sigh... guess not.

anyway i've almost succesfuly updated to the 2.6.5 kernel with just a few problems there and there that probably will be resolved in a few more menuconfig/compile cycle, then onward to apci/apm management.

anyway mozilla-firefox is still fucking up, so i still need help there so anyone got any ideas?

and i still am interested in backing up this laptop before i totaly fuck it up someday so when i do, i can just copy this backup over my mess and have an working system again.

from the post ive read so far, the best methoid would be setup an sshd on this box then sftp or scp into this box and tar it up but problem is the disk space i got 2.1 gig of data and stuff and only have 1.9 spare, and i know that ntfs and fat32 and other file system aren't that good at symbolic linking supports and so forth so it obiviously would ahve to be tarred on the fly while i'm copying the file from this laptop over to the other computer, it would go straigh into the tar file and be un affected by ntfs and fat32 inability to deal with links and so forth.

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*bump*

i still need help on this issue, hello?

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Ive recompiled the 2.6.5 kernel and now moved to the 2.6.5 kernel, other than a little bit of hyperness from the mouse its working great.

anyway reemerged pcmcia-cs, iptables, and mozilla-firefox, anyway pcmcia works but its still not showing up on my list as eth1, i mean by it working it detects there is a card and can id it, but when i do ifconfig it won't show up. and when i bring up network it fails.

then on mozilla-firefox its still screwed up, whenever i try to make my own tab or whenever i try to respond to a post or type anything in text field it freezes up and fucks up again. already recompiled it onice still no good there. so HELP!


i'm thinking there probably will be no reply to this thread so i'm wondering why i'm bothering. *sigh*

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*bump*

still no help on this?

[brodo]

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/etc/init.d/pcmcia is up and running properly.

an interesting new twist, cardctl used to be able to id the card, now guess what, it can't even identify the card anymore, so i'm going to go ahead and do some more kernel and module tweeking to see if i can get anything, if not then i'm suspecting possability of failing hardware.

i have my orginal working modules and kernel backed up and even if i load those it still fails, and i recompiled the pcmcia-cs against those sources and confugation and it still dosen't work. so i'm suspecting emerge of somethign screwed something up, or possability of hardware failure here, or somehow a module or an kernel configation got screwed up.


so as soon as i get spare time i'm going to tweek kernel somemore and see if i can't get it to work and stuff like that, if not i'll probably start to lean toward failing hardware idea.



but it sitll dosen't explain mozilla-firefox strange behavor, its sudden failure, i can't open tabs, and if i click or type anything in text field or fill anything it freezes up and i have to kill it.

[brodo]