[plug] Backimg up entire drive

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Mon Jan 5 17:47:23 WST 2004


On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:42:40PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:

| > Is it this simple? 
| 
| ``It works for most of us.''

... most of the time ;-)

I'd be inclined to use partimage instead of dd, though - it has a nice
windowy interface for those who like that sort of thing, understands
some filesystems enough to skip unused blocks, and has optional
compression too.  It only does one partition at a time though.

CP.




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