How do I save a disk image of my laptop hard drive?

[Dan Lund]

dd if=/dev/hda | gzip -9 -c | ssh userid at someremotehost ">
/directory/file-name-to-be-stored.gz

Replace /dev/hda with the drive you want backed up (or /dev/hda1 for
first partition), userid with the userid on the remote host your
backing up to, someremotehost with the hostname of the remote machine,
and /directory/file-name-to-be-stored.gz with the name of the file you
want it to be named as on the remote machine.. with the .gz extension.



On 4/6/07, Bryan O'Neal <BONeal at cornerstonehome.com> wrote:
> (Again I am sure some one has beaten me to this, but)
>
> dd will not compress your drive, so if you have an 80GB drive you will
> need at least 80GB of space. Though I remember some trick to this like
> dd|tar|zip|net but I do not recall.
>
> I have used several windows based tools off of a live windows diag disk
> I have (ultimate boot disk for windows 4) such as xml drive copy and
> they work great and are much cheaper then ghost, but somehow not as
> comforting as ghost...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Mark
> Phillips
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 12:21 PM
> To: PLUG
> Subject: How do I save a disk image of my laptop hard drive?
>
> I have a laptop that dual boots Windows and Debian. I need to make a
> complete
> backup of the entire drive. I have another Windows XP machine on my
> network
> (or another Debian machine) with some extra disk space, so I would like
> to
> create an image of the disk drive and store it there. I then want to
> restore
> it later. How do I do that?
>
> I have been googling around for "hard drive backup" and "partition
> backup". I
> found a few options, tested them on the Window 200 partition, and they
> don't
> seem to be able to do the job. One problem I have is that Windows 2000
> does
> not see the Linux partition and Debian does not see the Windows 2000
> partition. Based on what I read, I should unmount the drive I am copying
> - is
> this true?
>
> I am not enough of a Linux guru to figure out how to use dd across the
> network. Can I run dd on the system I am imaging?
>
> Can I do this with a knoppix CD? Is there a howto somewhere? I couldn't
> find
> it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
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