On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 12:07:28PM -0500, Romanator wrote:
> Is it possible to create an image file with all partitions, including
> Linux?
If your partition is smaller than 2 GB, a dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/hdb/output-file
will do it.
This will create the file output-file in /mnt/hdb. You should take
care to save the file (output-file) in a directory which is not on the
same drive though.
If your partition is bigger than 2 GB, you're in bad luck with dd. It
can only read/write files upto 2GB max (currently).
To still be able to backup your whole drive, first save the parition
entries to a file. sfdisk -lx will print out all the entries. Then
something like "tar spcfvI /tmp/MyBackupFile.tar.bz2 -C / .
--exclude=/tmp/MyBackupFile.tar.bz2". This will create a bzip2'd tar
file containing all your files in /tmp called MyBackupFile.tar.bz2.
If this still results in a file bigger than 2 GB (tar can also not
handle this), think about tar'ing all the dirs seperately.
HTH
Alexander Skwar
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