Backing up a whole partition over the network

[DecayCell]

Well, curiosity finally killed the cat -- and I finally b0rked my laptop. My main partition had a ReiserFS 3.6 filesystem, and a bit of GParteding later -- it's gone.
I ran reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on it, and though it did recover some of the data, it's not going to boot again any time soon. I wish to copy the whole partition to another computer over my home network, but I'm not quite sure how to do it (it weights 54GB). Of course, I don't need the whole partition, just my home directory (5GB) and the lost+found (2GB) directory.

Could anyone please give me some pointers? I'm trying very hard not to panic...
Thanks.

[Kosmas]

First of all NO REASON TO PANIC!
There are a lot of ways to get things over network.
I use the simplest of all. Boot the gentoo intall boot cd. An in case I can see the filesystem I Just nfs mount another system and copy ot tar cvzf anything I want to the other system.
Also with nfs mount you can have any other program from the other machine to run.
You could use partimage if that fits you.
Or you can backup the whole partition with any other tool.
You can also use a linux rescue or live cd to do such things.
There is always a way with linux. Worry only of you have windows
If you need more info just post

[avnielknight]

You could try mounting the drives from the LiveCD then perform a scp from one machiene to another (as long as you have the ssh daemon running on the other computer).