[Lilug] LiveCD disk backup software

[Jorg Kewisch]

Partimage saves / restores partitions to an image file on another 
partition or to another system. It also compresses, I don't know if it 
knows about file systems and what space is unused.


http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page


jorg




Will 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 <mailto: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>
>         [mailto: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
>         <mailto: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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