Hi: I currently use Cygwin and rsync to provide Time Machine-like functionality to a NAS on my home network. This works fine for user data.
I'm also interested in generating images to preserve the entire disk. What I'm wondering is whether doing this on a live system through Cygwin would produce a safe, bootable disk image or if the the APIs that Cygwin has to use or having the disk mounted would make this unreliable? A friend speculated that dd might complain about open files or some-such thing. I went and tried it on /dev/sda and it seemed to work without complaining. Example: $ dd if=/dev/sda of=/path/to/NAS/sda.img bs=512 conv=noerror,sync It would be great if something like this would work since dd is so ubiquitous that I could restore a drive in a number of ways and not lock me into something proprietary. Thanks, -Clint -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
