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prnull 10-26-2004 10:39 AM
Backup image with DD
 
Hi!

At the moment I'm using a dualboot enviroment with Win2000 on hda1 and Slackware on hda5. Is it possible to create a backup of my Win2000 and place the image on another drive for backup. I'v used DD before to create smaller images but none with a size exceeding 700MB. Is DD safe to use to create the image of aprox. 5GB? Would using "dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/hdx/backup.img bs=1 count=1" be sufficient?

TIA
prnull

Tinkster 10-26-2004 02:00 PM
Should be alright, but maybe you should have
a look at partimage ... handles gzip and bzip2
compression for the backed-up partitions, and
comes with several live and rescue CDs.


Cheers,
Tink

Finlay 10-26-2004 02:05 PM
download this monster:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
and use g4u to do partition backups.

prnull 10-26-2004 03:50 PM
Tinkster: Thanks for the tip. If I find partimage on Knoppix then I'll use it!

Finlay: Thats one wicked disk! Sounds like a must have. Thanks!


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