[Lilug] LiveCD disk backup software

[Robert Wilkens]

Just wondering, will tar get the partition tables? I thought it was just a
file archiver, but I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination..

Rob

 

From: lilug-bounces at lilug.org [mailto:lilug-bounces at lilug.org] On Behalf Of
Justin Dearing
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3:04 PM
To: LILUG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Lilug] LiveCD disk backup software

 

Will,

 

Just use "tar -cjvvf - /" and redirect the output through ssh. I've done it
through knoppix. I've even cloned linux installs this way, by making the
other end of the ssh tunnel read a "tar-xjvvf - /mnt/newparts"

 

Of course I had to setup and mount partitions first and run lilo afterwards.

 

systemrescuecd or knoppix will work jsut fine, but really you need tar, ssh
and a network.

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Will <will at psychdesigns.net> wrote:

So, I'm looking to back up a 1TB drive to a computer somewhere on my
network. I don't have too many files on the device itself, but I want to
back up the partition tables still so I can just restore the device back to
before I backed it up. I don't have another 1TB drive, so I was wondering
if there was any LiveCDs that would be able to compress it, or are just
efficient.

Has anyone had success with any particular liveCD in the past?

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