backing up a whole hard disk
Mike Gorse
mgorse at mgorse.dhs.org
Wed May 11 21:43:22 EDT 2005
Hi all,
I'm thinking about having another go at installing Linux on my laptop, but
I am a bit paranoid because I made XP unbootable the last time I attempted
this (December '03). I suspect I ran into the problem with parted not
understanding the new method that the 2.6 kernel uses to indicate disk
geometry, but I'm not sure. Or maybe I damaged XP by putting lilo in the
MBR. Anyway, I would like to back up my whole drive in case something
goes wrong and am thinking about setting up my desktop to export an
NFS-mountable directory that could hold a backup of the laptop's hard disk
and running something like the following on the laptop:
bzip2 </dev/hda >/mnt/backup/ci-backup.bz2
I assume that this would allow me to restore the drive exactly as it was
if I screw things up again, but can anyone comment as to whether or not it
will do what I think it will do?
Thanks in advance,
-- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org --
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