I use g4u for disk to disk cloning, but for what you are describing I boot from a knoppix or mepis CD, plug in a USB hard drive with a partition large enough to hold the compressed image and run partimage. If it's not a recent version of knoppix it's a good idea to have the target partition formatted as FAT32 which be written to by the older versions. I think the newer ones can now write to NTFS.
Tony DP wrote: > I've just read the G4u documentation. > Looks good ! > I would only be doing a local backup to another partition or HDD, not to > an FTP server. > > It seems that if you "upload" to FTP, you create an image. > But if you copydisk or copypart, it wipes the target disk/partition with > a mirror of the source. > It doesnt create an image file ? > > How can you create a compressed image of a disk or partition locally ? > And how do you then deploy that image from a local source (eg DVD) ? > > Any help appreciated :-) > > David Pan > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Mackenzie" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "General Practice Computing Group Talk" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:09 AM > Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Disk cloning quesiton > > >> >>> when using acronis true image to clone a complete drive (eg with >>> winxp+linux+grub), for some reason the copy won't boot (most of the >>> time) >>> using grub. One one occasion it did, on two others, had to re-write >>> grub to >>> the disk. >>> Anyone have any experience with this. >>> Is there a linux program to do the cloning which won't cause this >>> problem. >> >> Absolutely ... g4u >> >> Grab a copy here: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u >> >> I have used this a lot, and it has been >> flawless. Just download and burn yourself >> a copy of the live CD. Then boot up into >> it, and there is a simple command line for >> copying the partition/disk to another HDD, >> eg. copydisk wd0 wd1 >> >> John Mac >> _______________________________________________ >> Gpcg_talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk >> >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.1/822 - Release Date: >> 28/05/2007 11:40 AM >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > > _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
