backing up a whole hard disk

[Mike Gorse]

On Sat, 14 May 2005, Mike Gorse wrote:

> I tried using nfs, and the file that I was creating inexplicably stopped 
> growing after I had transferred about 3gb of compressed data (neither machine 
> showed any error), so I am following Nathan's suggestion and seeing if I have 
> any better luck over ssh.
>

Well, I had the same problem using ssh only it took longer to show up. 
Then I tried using gzip rather than bzip2, and the file eventually started 
growing very slowly, so I suspect the problem may be with the cat /dev/hda 
somehow.  But I've figured out that parted doesn't seem to support NTFS, 
so my whole reason for trying to back up the drive is gone.  It looks as 
though my only option, aside from Partition Magic possibly, would be 
Topologi-Linux.