At boot time, the drive in my laptop starting giving SMART 'your drive is about to die' errors. I called Dell and they sent a new, blank drive. I wanted to transfer the entire disk image to the new disk, so i did this:
Booted Knoppix 3.3. dd if=/dev/hdc | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat - > /orassa2/ray/laptop.dd' (to backup the image to a machine with 60gb free...) Changed out the drive. ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat /orassa2/ray/laptop.dd' > /dev/hdc The backup took 8 hours for 60gb, the restore only took 7 hours. This probably only works with very similar drives. I looked at partimage but it only does partitions, and i have 5 partitions, so it would have been a pain. The dd trick worked great though. Are there any other tools with Knoppix to do full disk backups (besides dd, haha)? ray
