Image a hard drive
I am trying to image my Hard Drive using a Knoppix boot CD, I executed the following command
dd if=/dev/hda - /mnt/remote_share/mypc_hda.img. but it created and 20 GB Image, even though I only had 2 GB of the 20GB hard drive used. Is it possible to crreate an image simillar to ghost or PQDI that only captures the used sectors? |
dd will create an image of the entire drive, zero sectors and all. Try using partimage on the knoppix cd; it's included. Here's a short tutorial:
http://www.desktop-linux.net/backups.htm |
if you put gzip in the loop, the empty space should compress well. especially if you zero it first.
like dd if=/dev/hda | gzip > filename.dd.gz |
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