On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Kenneth Lee wrote:
> So, if I have a Live CD, and the backup.gz file on a flashdrive, what
> command would extract and write the backup.gz to a hard drive? My
> confusion is that I don't really understand what is in the backup.gz
> file that g4u created with uploaddisk. Running something similar to
> Knoppix live cd, would dd be used, or am I simply running tar -xzvf
> backup.gz - would overwrite the target disk?
Unix 101... :)
run something like "zcat backup.gz | file -" and you'll probably see that
it's a full disk image - from the first byte (MBR...) to the last byte of
the harddisk, including MBR, partition table, etc.
You'd write that back with dd, maybe with something like
zcat backup.gz | dd of=/dev/rsd0d bs=1m progress=1
on NetBSD, or
... | dd of=/dev/sda bs=1m
on Linux.
- Hubert
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