tar WinVista partition and restore later?
Has anyone tried this and report on success/failure:
/dev/sda3 contains a Windows Vista installation (yeuch, but the computer came with it pre-installed and someday I might want to play with it). Code:
mkdir /mnt/tmp I want to try tar because I don't have any imaging software (Ghost, TrueImage, etc.) that is a recent enough version for me to trust it imagining whatever slightly new flavor of NTFS Vista uses. I don't see why tar wouldn't work, but I've never tried tar'ing/restoring an entire Windows OS installation before. Does it work? I'll have to format the resized partition before the restore, and all's I have with Vista on it is the Dell "recovery disk". So if that doesn't let me do a simple format in Vista's flavor of NTFS I might have some problems. Also, does Linux NTFS write support handle the Vista flavor of NTFS without problem? I am assuming that Vista has it's own "new" flavor of NTFS, but maybe it doesn't and Linux can format the partition for me just as well. Thanks! |
If you follow the links provided in this thread you'll see how to make a compressed image of only allocated data using dd and gzip. Not sure how it will work restoring to a smaller partition.
I know the software I use will only restore to the same size partition as what the image was made in, can be anywhere on the drive though. Quote:
But that's just "thinking", I say so because I'm sure Microsoft has patents on many features of the newest NTFS file system that others can't touch, that Vista uses. |
No, no, no, no ...
Read this recent similar thread. ntfsclone will give you an effective backup. Use it. |
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