[nflug] Disk Image/Restore

[Cyber Source]

Frank Kumro wrote:
> Heres a dumb question, does the drive that i am copying the image to
> (using dd) have to be formatted? Im going to guess it doesnt but I
> just want to make sure.
>
> On 7/25/06, Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
>> 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
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Frank
>> >> > Shenanigans!!
>> >> > http://www.syncoder.com
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>> yes dd works well too, you will still need to run the mbr command.
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>
Just partitioned, the OS copy will be the format. Just make sure you 
create the same type partition that it was on before.
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