[nflug] Disk Image/Restore

[Frank Kumro]

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
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> yes dd works well too, you will still need to run the mbr command.
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