The classic tool is dd which makes a byte for byte exact copy, but this includes the free space. I can't remember what it's called right now but I'm sure it's on http://www.clonezilla.org/
Which you'll have to do from a live disc anyways so get yourself a copy and boot it up with the external drive attached and you should be good to go. Alex Thomas Johnston wrote: > I installed Debian (lenny) on my laptop last week and it is my first > exposure to Linux. I was wondering if anyone had a recommendation for > a utility to "image" my laptop's hard drive to an external drive. I > would like to perform some kind of complete system backup now that I > have the absolute essentials working. There are lots of tweaks that I > would like to try (nvidia graphics driver, sleep/resume functionality, > etc, etc.), but I am certain that I will wind up royally screwing > things up. If possible, I would like to avoid spending another week > just getting back to where I am now. > > Thanks, > > Thomas Johnston > > PS - Thanks again to all those who helped me get Matlab installed!! > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
