[plug] Backimg up entire drive

[Brad Campbell]

Cameron Patrick wrote:
> 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.

But partimage is scriptable so you could knock up a quick script to do 
it pretty quickly.

Brad

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