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

[Bryan O'Neal]

(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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