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mandreko
03-26-2001, 03:09 AM
i recently got a copy of norton ghost 2001 and tried to backup my linux partition to an image file. It however freezes every time i do it. It did let me backup my windows partition, but not linux (which i consider my more important one)
I have not yet tried driveimage, but i was wondering if anyone knew of a way to do this, maybe even using "dd" or something to backup my settings and all.
Just FYI, Ive used Drive Image and it works well with Linux, even burns a CD image 'on-the-fly'.
teeitup
03-26-2001, 03:24 AM
On my laptop, I use ghost from the W98se parttion to image my linux partition and write it out to an external scsi drive.
Works everytime.
Strike
03-26-2001, 11:10 AM
Sure you could use dd:
dd if=partition to backup of=image file (you could toss a bs=4096 in there too, I suppose)
FORTRAN gy
03-26-2001, 11:48 AM
partimage will do the job and can split the image to any size you specify: 1.44MB - Gasp!
I dowloaded the latest version and it even supports ReiserFS, contrary to what this thread says:
partimage (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=22&t=005961)