On 01/04/2019 08:23 AM, Tyrell Jentink wrote:
The standard tool for taking a disk image is 'dd.' Man page: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/dd.1.html
That's where I started ;/
Theoretically, you can simply image the entire drive, partitions and all intact exactly as they are presently, although I've never done it that way... I have always imaged partitions directly... But I don't see why either method would be "wrong," as long as you know how to mount the output ;)
That "Theoretically" is the kicker.
As for compressing it... https://serverfault.com/questions/52260/compressing-dd-backup-on-the-fly suggests you can simply pipe the output of 'dd' directly into gzip... But one of the comments says not to use it for the purposes the original poster suggested it for, so maybe read their warnings before following their advice.
I hadn't seen that particular article. But a similar one was what prompted me to post.
I hoped there was a tool. As I intend to erase the hard drive in each machine before doing a fresh Debian install I NEED to have a copy in a safe place. I WANT it stored in such a manner that I can retrieve individual files/directories.
Don't know if what I want is actually possible. Don't know if there is something basic that I don't know. Thank you.
On Fri, Jan 4, 2019, 06:08 Richard Owlett <[email protected] wrote:I wish to do fresh Debian installs to three machines {including repartitioning drives of each machine}. Each drive is nominally 250GB. I have purchased a USB connected 1TB drive to be the target. I like the ease of use of Clonezilla-live. But it intrinsically wipes the target drive completely. Compressing the output would be nice. TIA
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