Am 02. Sep, 2003 schw=E4tzte George Gambill so:

> Thanks for all the responses.  Reading through them a thought came to min=
d.
> I need to back the partitions up before I start playing with them.
>
> I can easily copy both partitions to a Linux machine but my understanding
> (correct me if I am wrong here) is that a simple copy may create problems=
 if
> I should destroy the world (that's my gift) and need to restore to the
> original state.
>
> Back Up (with restore capability) would seem safer.
>
> Is there a Linux solution (RH 8) for "backing up" NT partitions (over a
> network to a Linux drive) which would later allow a Linux restore solutio=
n
> to the NT partitions -or- possibly to different NT drives/partitions?

Theoretically you could boot the NT box with Knoppix or other live CD, use
"sfdisk -d" to get the partition table, then dd the partitions to a
GNU/Linux box via ssh.

Then, if you completely hose the NT box, you just install debian.

If, however, you need the NT stuff back, you use sfdisk to recreate the
partitions ( if they're hosed ) and use dd over ssh the other way to put th=
e
partitions back.

If you have room on the NT box, you could store the partitions you've saved
on the same disk.

dd will do bit for bit copying, e.g. a 4 gig filesystem with 2k of data wil=
l
need 4 gig of space for the backup. It eliminates problems with NTFS and NT
permissions, though.

Again, this is all theoretical since I don't use NT and I certainly wouldn'=
t
want to restore it :).

ciao,

der.hans
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