partimage for backing up Windoze partitions

[Asheville Joe]

I added -f3 (without the space) and that causes it to exit properly when 
done.  Although the progress window probably shouldn't be there with the 
-b,  I like it!

Thanks.

Joe

Robert Meyer wrote:

>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:
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>>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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