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Bash[DevNull]
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 Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 6:01 pm Post subject: Linux "GHOST" or disk-imager. |
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Hello All,
Under win32 i can use Nortan Ghost, but what i can use under Linux? :)
I suppose, some thing like ``dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/hdb/somefile'' for creating, and ``dd if=/mnt/hdb/somefile of=/dev/hda'' for restore/backup? :)
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foexxchen
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dd will work. It does, however, copy the whole partition including all the unused space. So you might want to compress the image afterwards or do something like
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dd if=/dev/hda1 | gzip -c > img.gz
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Theres also partimage. It's got a nice user interface and AFAIK ignores unused space. |
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Bash[DevNull]
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| foexxchen wrote: | dd will work. It does, however, copy the whole partition including all the unused space. So you might want to compress the image afterwards or do something like
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dd if=/dev/hda1 | gzip -c > img.gz
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Theres also partimage. It's got a nice user interface and AFAIK ignores unused space. |
Can i "image" whole disk (not hdaN, but hda and etc.).
Does win32 (OS, partition will alive after dd-ing? :)
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jkt
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| Bash[DevNull] wrote: | | Theres also partimage. It's got a nice user interface and AFAIK ignores unused space. |
correct.
| Quote: | | Can i "image" whole disk (not hdaN, but hda and etc.). |
`dd if=/dev/hda of=/storage/dump-of-hda` - this will store _complete_ image of hda into file /storage/dump-of-hda. recover by `dd if=/storage/dump-of-hda of=/dev/hda`. /storage must be mounted from other disk.
| Quote: | Does win32 (OS, partition will alive after dd-ing?  |
it depends on what are you going to do. disk imaging is usually done for backups, so it WILL store data exactly as they are now. |
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