Well, you could mount another partition on the same drive with enough free space to make the backup. However, if you just have one partition, you are stuck.
John Hebert -----Original Message----- From: Chopin Cusachs To: [email protected] Sent: 8/8/03 7:13 PM Subject: RE: [brlug-general] hard drive image It doesn't supply the network? If I understand this correctly, it doesn't do much for stand-alone users. Choppy At 04:13 PM 8/8/03 -0500, John Hebert wrote: >Mondo seems to be a very nice tool. I plan to play with it more soon, but if >you are looking for something quick and dirty, use partimage on a Knoppix >disk. > >Just boot a Knoppix disk, mount a network drive, and run partimage in a >shell. It will make a compressed disk image of a single partition and store >on the mounted network drive. > >I'm not sure if it will back up an entire physical disk ("/dev/hda") as >opposed to a specific partition ("/dev/hda1"). _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
