Another idea, if you need to backup across a network, is to use dd with netcat (this assumes you are on a highspeed local network) it worked beautifully. Google it and you should see some easy articles and howto's.
On 1/13/07, Greg Freemyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/13/07, Reinhard Gimbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Bo, hello community ! > > Bo wrote / schrieb: > > > I've just been lurking so far but > > I would be happy to recieve some help on the topic of how to clone an > > entire disk (with > > partitions and diferent filesystems and all) on a dual boot home systen. > > No servers or anything. > > Unix command "dd" (= device dump) is your friend ! > > Assuming the disk to clone is connected to primary IDE channel as master > (=/dev/hda) and the target disk resides on primary IDE as slave > (=/dev/hdb) the command you need to issue looks like this: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=128M > > The option "bs" specifies a buffer of 128MB size. Otherwise "dd" would > copy blocks of 512 byte each ... > I agree with others, that a Ghost like program would be better than dd, but if you're going to use dd to copy a whole disk, use the read error options to continue past the occasional bad sector: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=128M conv=noerror,sync And bs=4k is big enough in my experience. (And I do this a lot including timing tests etc..) If you're target is a tape, then you want (need) a big blocksize like above, but be sure to label your disk with the blocksize you used. I've found that a lot of tapes can only be read if you use the same blocksize as you wrote. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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