Will, its pretty easily to manually make the partitions. Liek I said I cloned machines this way.<div><br></div><div>make sure you exclude /dev, /proc, /etc<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Will <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:will@psychdesigns.net">will@psychdesigns.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Yeah, for what I'm doing I need to be able to restore the whole disk easily including the partition tables and everything.<div>
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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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<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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<strong><span style="font-size:10pt">From:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt">
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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
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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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