Daniel Quinn <gen...@danielquinn.org> [16-03-30 17:12]: > On 29/03/16 17:18, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > The usbstick I want to make an initial backup is 64GB of size. > That means, I will backup mostly zeroes. > > You could just use dd to take a full backup and then compress it. If it > is indeed mostly zeros it’ll compress very well: > > |# dd if=/dev/usbstick | xz > usb.xz | > > Of course you can use bzip, lbzip, gzip, etc. instead of xz too. >
See some posting above why this may be not what you want, if simply cloning the partinioning/formatting information is enough. Best regards, Meino
