Backup/Restore a harddisk image onto a samba network drive

Use SystemRescueCd:

for resizing partitions, creating/deleting partitions:

run_qtparted

mount -t smbfs \
-o username=myusername,password=mypassword \
  //<ip-address of linux server>/homes \
  /mnt/temp1

for storing/restoring of images of partitions:

partimage