[sllug-members]: Network backup and cloning

[Lars Rasmussen]

On 3/5/07, Mike Bourgeous <i_am_nitrogen at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Partimage is a tool that I heard about years ago, then forgot about, and
> desperately searched for until I found it again last year.  It does
> everything you're looking for.  From partimage.org:
>
> "Partition Image 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.
> Partition Image also works for large, very full partitions. For example, a
> full 1 GB partition can be compressed with gzip down to 400MB."
>
> Mike Bourgeous
>
> P.S. It works for NTFS for me, even though it's listed as experimental.

I've used partimage on ntfs with success as well, although I remember
having to restore the MBR afterward.  partimage has some good docs
here:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/partimage/PartImageGuide-20030204.pdf

ntfsclone is what I'm going to try the next time I need to backup an
NTFS partition.
http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsclone

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Lars