Quick introduction to System Rescue Data Backup

If your computer is infected with viruses, you cannot obtain the backup and operating system. As a final means, you may need to back up your important documents, girlfriend photos, and ASCII text files containing passwords. Today, I will show you how to do this easily.

Create System Rescue CD

Use an uninfected computer and download the latest System Rescue CD image from sysresccd.org, and burn the ISO image to a blank CD.

Start recovery

After burning, put the CD in the drive of the faulty computer. Set BIOS to boot from CD. And restart the computer.

Then you will see this beautiful System Rescue startup screen. In boot: ENTER the following command at the prompt and click ENTER.

 
 

  
  
rescuecd docache dostartx dodhcp  
  
  
 
 
 

The docache option allows you to delete the System Rescue CD after startup, so that you can insert another blank CD/DVD for backup.

Dostartx selects automatic GUI startup.

The dodhcp option is to automatically configure the network and automatically connect to the Internet after it is started.

 

Load the corresponding keyboard ing as prompted or select the default US keyboard ing ).

It should automatically start the GUI. If not, ENTER the startx command and click ENTER.

There should be a terminal with a yellow background on your desktop. We need to load the partition and back up it.

Your Windows partition is probably located at/mnt/sda1 or/mnt/sda2. Run the following command to check the partition:

 
 

  
  
fdisk -l /dev/sda  
  
  
 
 
 

It displays the name of your partition.

Load partition 1 and run the following command:

 
 

  
  
ntfs-3g /mnt/sda1 /mnt/windows  
  
  
 
 
 

If the load is correct, enter the following command and you should see the file under C:

 
 

  
  
ls -al /mnt/windows  
  
  
 
 
 

Back up data to CD/DVD

Now, start backing up your data and enter:

 
 

  
  
xfburn  
  
  
 
 
 

The Xfburn program displays the partition list. Use the Filesystem menu option in the upper left corner to Browse Windows partitions and select all the files you need. Click New Data Composition. Insert a blank CD or DVD and burn your data to the CD/DVD.

Back up your data to a remote location

If you like to use command line, it will be very simple. First, ping Google to confirm your network status:

 
 

  
  
ping google.com  
  
  
 
 
 

If an error occurs, run the following command to configure your network port:

 
 

  
  
net-setup eth0  
  
  
 
 
 

If you want to transfer files in C: \ work to myremoteserver.com on your remote server, assume that the user name is distrolist.

C: \ work folder should be/mnt/windows/work. This command will send the folder:

 
 

  
  
scp -r /mnt/windows/work distrolist@myremoteserver.com  
  
  
 
 
 

Enter the password of your distrolist and the file transfer starts.

Source: http://www.distrolist.com/how-to-recover-important-data-after-your-system-is-crashed/