[Lilug] LiveCD disk backup software

[Will]

Yeah, for what I'm doing I need to be able to restore the whole disk
easily including the partition tables and everything.
 On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:16:46 -0500, Justin Dearing  wrote:
  Rob,  
   No it doesn't. However there is a switch to only get the current
mount point (eg if /var/log is a seperate partition and you tar /var
it gets everthing by /var/log)   
   You have to build your destination mount hierachry under
/mnt/something on the live cd destionation system.   
  On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Robert Wilkens  wrote:
 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  
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 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  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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