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

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Author: Dan Lund
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: How do I save a disk image of my laptop hard drive?
I have done this method countless times to save off an image of a
machine before I nuke it for another purpose.
(well, not with knoppix, with the gentoo boot cd, but the same idea)
Rudimentary, and works everytime.

On 4/5/07, George Toft <> wrote:
> Method 1:
> 1. Boot a knoppix cd
> 2. Open a root terminal window and issue this command:
> dd if=/dev/hda | ssh user@someremotehost "> /path/to/file/backup.img"


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