On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 22:45, Ben Pitzer wrote: > Folks, > > Hey, I'm curious if any of your out there have ever used any Linux > software for making backup images of your file systems, perhaps > something similar to Norton's Ghost software. I would like to back up > my Linux drives since I heard one of them making some rather unfortunate > noises one evening. I'm afraid that if I spin them down, they won't > spin back up, and I would like to make decent backups before that > happens. > > Any thoughts you might have on a good disk imaging software would be > helpful. Thanks!
I have successfully used "dd" for this. :-) It takes a bit of knowledge about the underlying filesystem (i.e. block sizes and exact partition sizes) and being good at math, but it works very well. Two summers ago I used dd to copy an entire partition, over the network, from one computer to another when I swapped out drives. I then used it to copy the data back (making sure the new drive had a partition set up *exactly* the same as the old one. I even used the "skip" parameter to allow me to break the partition into two files (since it was more than 2GB). Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- GPG Fingerprint = A66C 8660 924F 5F8C 71DA BDD0 CE09 4F8E DE76 39D4 GPG Key can be found at http://wtl.wayfarer.org/lovelace.gpg.asc --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- Those who are willing to sacrifice essential liberties for a little order, will lose both and deserve neither. -- Benjamin Franklin History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. -- Justice Thurgood Marshall, 1989
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