[nflug] Disk Image/Restore

[Cyber Source]

Frank Kumro wrote:
> Thanks josh! I was hoping there was a command line way to do this...
>
> On 7/25/06, joshj at linuxmail.org <joshj at linuxmail.org> wrote:
>> When we last left our adventurers...
>>
>> > Is there a way to create a single image of a hard drive in linux? This
>> > hard drive is 4gb and I need the backup because I want to transfer the
>> > image to a new (larger) hard drive and then expand that partition to
>> > take up the whole drive. Now this is not my computer its a companies
>> > windows 98 machine, its beyond me why a company is using windows 98.
>> > In windows there is Acronis True Image 9 which appears to do what I
>> > want however I would have to use a family members machine to do that
>> > (since I dont run windoze). So is there any way in linux to do this?
>> > Thanks in advance !!
>>
>> dd if=/dev/hdX of=hd.img
>>
>> We did this recently to copy harddrives. But you can do it to make an
>> image on another drive and then transfer if thats what you need to 
>> do. To
>> Transfer:
>>
>> dd if=hd.img of=/dev/hdX
>>
>> Then you can use any partition manager to resize. Or to copy right from
>> drive to drive:
>>
>> dd if=/dev/hdX of=/dev/hdY
>>
>> On a 4G hd this won't take to long. But it can be sped up by changing 
>> the
>> byte size:
>>
>> dd if=/dev/hdX of=/dev/hdY bs=4096
>>
>> The above copied an 80G drive to another in about 27 minutes. They were
>> windows installations.
>>
>> -Josh
>>
>> >
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yes dd works well too, you will still need to run the mbr command.
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