Re: Making an image of my HDD

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 15:55 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote: > Hello gurus, > > I'm considering doing some dangerous tinkering with my laptop. I have > regular backups of /root /boot /etc and /home, but would like to make a > complete image of the drive as well. Ideally, what I want to do is boot

Re: Making an image of my HDD

2008-08-04 Thread Shachar Or
On Monday 04 August 2008 11:09, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > On 2008-08-01 22:09, Shachar Or wrote: > > On Friday 01 August 2008 10:15, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> rsync -ax / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backup/dir/ > > > > Does the -x option mean that it will not read mounts like /dev, /proc and > > su

Re: Making an image of my HDD

2008-08-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-08-01 22:09, Shachar Or wrote: > On Friday 01 August 2008 10:15, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> rsync -ax / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backup/dir/ > > Does the -x option mean that it will not read mounts like /dev, /proc and > such? Please, read man rsync: [snip] -x, --one-file-system

Re: Making an image of my HDD

2008-08-01 Thread Shachar Or
On Friday 01 August 2008 10:15, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > On 2008-07-31 21:55, Michael S. Peek wrote: > > Hello gurus, > > > > I'm considering doing some dangerous tinkering with my laptop. I have > > regular backups of /root /boot /etc and /home, but would like to make a > > complete image of

Re: Making an image of my HDD

2008-08-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-07-31 21:55, Michael S. Peek wrote: > Hello gurus, > > I'm considering doing some dangerous tinkering with my laptop. I have > regular backups of /root /boot /etc and /home, but would like to make a > complete image of the drive as well. Ideally, what I want to do is boot > from a cd, dd

Re: Making an image of my HDD

2008-07-31 Thread elijah r.
> dd if=${device} conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | ssh -l ${user} ${host} "dd > of=file.bin bs=64K" Unless you need to encrypt, I recommend that you just use netcat instead of ssh, as it will be faster. I also recommend a larger block size. Using a 64k block size will take a long time, even if you tak

Re: Making an image of my HDD

2008-07-31 Thread David A. Parker
dd if=${device} conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | ssh -l ${user} ${host} "dd of=file.bin bs=64K" I have used dd to back up and restore hard drives before, but I've saved the image on a NFS directory instead of using ssh. - Dave -- Dave Parker Utica College Department of Integrated Informatio

Making an image of my HDD

2008-07-31 Thread Michael S. Peek
Hello gurus, I'm considering doing some dangerous tinkering with my laptop. I have regular backups of /root /boot /etc and /home, but would like to make a complete image of the drive as well. Ideally, what I want to do is boot from a cd, dd the drive to a file on my workstation via ssh in su