Yeah, for what I'm doing I need to be able to restore the whole disk easily including the partition tables and everything.<br />
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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)
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You have to build your destination mount hierachry under /mnt/something on the live cd destionation system.
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Robert Wilkens <span><<a href="mailto:robwilkens@gmail.com">robwilkens@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1f497d">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..</span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1f497d">Rob</span>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 10pt">From:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt">
<a href="mailto:lilug-bounces@lilug.org" target="_blank">lilug-bounces@lilug.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:lilug-bounces@lilug.org" target="_blank">lilug-bounces@lilug.org</a>] <strong>On Behalf Of </strong>Justin
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<strong>Sent:</strong> Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3:04 PM<br />
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<strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [Lilug] LiveCD disk backup software</span>
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Will,
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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"
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Of course I had to setup and mount partitions first and run
lilo afterwards.
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systemrescuecd or knoppix will
work jsut fine, but really you need tar, ssh and a network.
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Will <<a href="mailto:will@psychdesigns.net" target="_blank">will@psychdesigns.net</a>> wrote:
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So, I'm looking to back up a 1TB drive to a computer
somewhere on my<br />
network. I don't have too many files on the device itself, but I want to<br />
back up the partition tables still so I can just restore the device back to<br />
before I backed it up. I don't have another 1TB drive, so I was wondering<br />
if there was any LiveCDs that would be able to compress it, or are just<br />
efficient.<br />
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Has anyone had success with any particular liveCD in the past?<br />
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