On 9/19/2014 10:19 PM, David Sexton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> first mount the sd card
> mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
>
> and then
>
> dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/mnt/mybackup
>
> dd will copy the whole partition including blank space and so might not fit
> on your 4gb sd card.
>
> If you can reinstall xp then it would be better to just backup your important
> documents
>
>
> David
If you installed XP onto an NTFS file system, ntfsclone is more efficient than
dd. I also compress the image using gzip. To backup an NTFS file system, this
is the shell script I use:
timestamp=`date '+%y%m%d'`
BACKUP_DEV=${BACKUP_DEV:-/dev/sda1}
BASE=`basename $BACKUP_DEV`
(ntfsclone --save-image -o- $BACKUP_DEV |gzip -c >ntfs-${BASE}-$timestamp.gz)
2>ntfs-${BASE}-$timestamp.out
And to restore:
timestamp=<timestamp-of-backup>
BACKUP_DEV=${BACKUP_DEV:-/dev/sda1}
BASE=`basename $BACKUP_DEV`
zcat ntfs-${BASE}-$timestamp.gz |ntfsclone --restore-image --overwrite
$BACKUP_DEV -
HTH,
Helen
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