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| I would like to make raw copy of my windows partition (i have just
installed system, drivers and necessary programs and would like to
have copy of windows in that fresh state) from linux, and naturally i
would like to restore it in some time.
In Windows for that is program called Norton Ghost, but i would like
to do that from linux. I am kind of new in linux world but as i learn
about it i see it has many possibilities.
I tried to find command that could do that but only find dump2fs and
man pages told me that it is only for linux file system. I read about
unix command dump but i don't have it on my system. I am not really
sure that I am on right way.
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| Wild Wizard 2002-09-10, 8:29 am |
| twix wrote:
> I would like to make raw copy of my windows partition (i have just
> installed system, drivers and necessary programs and would like to
> have copy of windows in that fresh state) from linux, and naturally i
> would like to restore it in some time.
>
> In Windows for that is program called Norton Ghost, but i would like
> to do that from linux. I am kind of new in linux world but as i learn
> about it i see it has many possibilities.
>
> I tried to find command that could do that but only find dump2fs and
> man pages told me that it is only for linux file system. I read about
> unix command dump but i don't have it on my system. I am not really
> sure that I am on right way.
dd it in 2GB chunks and compress them?
ghost is actually more intelligent than this as it understands the file
system and partition structures as well as the boot sector, which allows it
to grab the basic structure of the disk and then just the files. Using dd
will grab a raw image of the disk which may or may not contain files, but
if you compress these images the empty ones will shrink to a nice small
size
NB 2GB is the max file size on most systems thus you cant grab more than
that (ghost breaks images apart at that size also)
--
get your slack here
http://wildwizard.kicks-XXX.org/slackware/mirrors.php
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| Lew Pitcher 2002-09-10, 8:29 am |
| On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 14:37:35 +0200, in alt.os.linux, twix
<twix@mail.inet.hr> wrote:
>I would like to make raw copy of my windows partition (i have just
>installed system, drivers and necessary programs and would like to
>have copy of windows in that fresh state) from linux, and naturally i
>would like to restore it in some time.
>
>In Windows for that is program called Norton Ghost, but i would like
>to do that from linux. I am kind of new in linux world but as i learn
>about it i see it has many possibilities.
>
>I tried to find command that could do that but only find dump2fs and
>man pages told me that it is only for linux file system. I read about
>unix command dump but i don't have it on my system. I am not really
>sure that I am on right way.
You can use 'dd' or 'cp'
Lew Pitcher, Information Technology Consultant, Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
(Lew_Pitcher@td.com)
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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| "twix" <twix@mail.inet.hr> wrote in message
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> I would like to make raw copy of my windows partition (i have just
> installed system, drivers and necessary programs and would like to
> have copy of windows in that fresh state) from linux, and naturally i
> would like to restore it in some time.
>
> In Windows for that is program called Norton Ghost, but i would like
> to do that from linux. I am kind of new in linux world but as i learn
> about it i see it has many possibilities.
>
> I tried to find command that could do that but only find dump2fs and
> man pages told me that it is only for linux file system. I read about
> unix command dump but i don't have it on my system. I am not really
> sure that I am on right way.
I believe you can use dd if=/dev/hda of=diskimage
where hda is you windows hard drive device.
if you do a dd if=/dev/hda1 you would get the partition in a file that linux
could then mount to check in a file using
mount -o loop -t vfat <diskimage> /mnt
Other wise you can load the full hd image in vmware (any other software do
this).
Andy
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