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

[Dan Lund]

My mistake, syntactical problem with what I gave.

The following works (just tested it)
dd if=/dev/hda | ssh userid at remotemachine "gzip -9 -c > /root/test.img.gz"


On 4/6/07, Dan Lund <situationalawareness at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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