Re: Backing up an entire hard drive

2008-04-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Micha wrote: I need to wipe my hardrive for some repair and I want to back it up. I would prefer to just backup the debian partition and not the entire harddrive. Is it possible to do either with dd? seems like it should work for the entire drive, would it work for a single partition if I restore

Re: Backing up an entire hard drive

2008-04-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 24 April 2008 05:02:31 am Micha wrote: > I need to wipe my hardrive for some repair and I want to back it up. I > would prefer to just backup the debian partition and not the entire > harddrive. Is it possible to do either with dd? Yes, but it's not particularly flexible compared to ot

Re: Backing up an entire hard drive

2008-04-24 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 03:02:31PM +0300, Micha wrote: > I need to wipe my hardrive for some repair and I want to back it up. I would > prefer to just backup the debian partition and not the entire harddrive. Is it > possible to do either with dd? yes to both > seems like it should work for the e

Backing up an entire hard drive

2008-04-24 Thread Micha
I need to wipe my hardrive for some repair and I want to back it up. I would prefer to just backup the debian partition and not the entire harddrive. Is it possible to do either with dd? seems like it should work for the entire drive, would it work for a single partition if I restore previous parti