[TriLUG] Imaging my HD

[Sinner from the Prairy]

A Dimecres 15 Agost 2001 03:33 pm, vàreu escriure:
> Assuming you have sufficient space elsewhere, dd could be your friend -
> you could just create a block-by-block image of your partition on another
> partition. Things could get messy, though, if you have to restore; you'd
> have to boot to a floppy or another partition in order to be able to
> rewrite your original one.

> ap


What about "dd | tar | bzip2 --in-chunks-of-650MB | mkiso" ?


At PC Magazine, they were reviewing different disc imaging programs (Ghost, 
DiskWhatever...) and they found out that "dd" was the best product. 

They were doing it for Windows, but.... with the LinuxOnFloppy and dd in the 
floppy, they did the wole nine yards of Windows Disk Imaging.

Then, tar + bzip it, make an iso image, burn it, md5sum it and... ta-dah! 


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