partimage for backing up Windoze partitions

[Robert Meyer]

try adding '-f 3' to the command line.

the '-b' should not run the gui at all.

Cheers!

Bob

--- Asheville Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
> A while back, Bob Meyer refered me to the partimage utility for backing 
> up Windoze partitions.  http://www.partimage.org/  (I would have just 
> used dump, but my dump man page says fat types of partitions are not 
> supported.)
> 
> Anyway, as far as backup goes, partimage works like a champ.  (I'm still 
> trying to figure out how to do a non-destructive test of the restore 
> without taking my machine apart.  But that's another issue. :) ) 
> 
> The problem I'm having is that even though I specified -b (batch mode) 
> on the partimage command line, it still displays a progress window which 
> is very nice, but not what I want, and when it finishes, it displays 
> statistics and hangs until I press enter.  This is a problem because I 
> call partimage twice from the script because I have two Windoze 
> partitions to backup and it doesn't ever get back to the script until I 
> press enter.
> 
> Perhaps, I could pipe  a CR into  it to start with.  Haven't tried it yet.
> 
> Or, I could run separate backups as cron jobs, but cron doesn't work 
> very well for me because  the machine is in my bedrooom and it's turned 
> off when I'm not using it , so a lot of times, scheduled jobs don't 
> happen because the machine is off (or in Windoze - shudder!) when it's 
> time for them to run.
> 
> I also thought of running the backups in parallel in background, but I'm 
> not very optimistic about what that would do to performance and maybe 
> even wear and tear on the drives.
> 
> The command line I'm using is:
> /usr/sbin/partimage -z1 -o -d -m -b save /dev/hda1 /mnt/portable/cdrive
> 
> The user manual really doesn't seem to address running it in batch mode.
> 
> I posted a question on their forum, but the most recent message there 
> was from July, so I'm not expecting a quick answer.
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Joe
> 
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