[Lilug] LiveCD disk backup software

[Luis Murillo]

Is there a way to image the disk but not include the blank space? I
believe that Norton Ghost can do so...

Regards,

-LuisM



On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 14:19, Will <will at psychdesigns.net> wrote:
> 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 <robwilkens at gmail.com>
> 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
>
>
>
> 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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