Re: How to Back Up Win Box for Linux Install

--- "G Gambill" <ggambill@emr.net> wrote:

From: "G Gambill" <ggambill@emr.net>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 08:33:13 -0700
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Subject: How to Back Up Win Box for Linux Install

I have a Win 2K laptop with USB.

I also have a large external USB drive that is recognized and mounted with
ubuntu live.

I would like to backup the Win drive is such a way that I could reinstall
from the backup just incase.

Any suggestions?

Thnx,

George

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George,

Partiton Image will do the job for you. Here's a description:

" Partition Image will only copy data from the used portions of the partition. For speed and efficiency, free blocks are not written to the image file. This is unlike the 'dd' command, which also copies empty blocks. Partition Image also works for large, very full partitions. For example, a full 1 GB partition can be compressed with gzip down to 400MB."

It's available on the SystemRescueCD http://www.sysresccd.org

Dennisk
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