mattrixx
join:2004-02-18
Orland Park, IL
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I`m looking for a Hard Drive Disc imaging program that can be saved to an External source such as an external USB HDD.
That is, a "snapshot" image of my Linux Mint6 HDD, for potential recovery or re installation to a new HDD .
This necessarily would include all Partitions /Root/Swap/Home etc. so that everything can be "restored" back to the time the "snapshot" was created.
"Partimage will only copy data from the used portions of the partition. For speed and efficiency, free blocks are not written to the image file.
This is unlike the 'dd' command, which also copies empty blocks. Partimage also works for large, very full partitions. For example, a full 1 GB partition can be compressed with gzip down to 400MB"
This is also what I want in a image backup program, but "Partimage" talks about creating backup images of individual Partitions ONLY? Am I mistaken here?
Matt |
