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Image your Hard Drive with KNOPPIX
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Post Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 2:52 pm   Post subject: Image your Hard Drive with KNOPPIX Reply with quote Back to top  
excellent article here on how to use the free Knoppix distro to make an image of your hard drive

http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/ImageYourHardDriveUsingKnoppix

it covers how to copy an image to a remote SSH server, to a windows or samba share, and how to clone a hard drive onto another hard drive.

Looks like it's very simple... I think I"ll try it over this weekend with the Maxtor drive I just grabbed from Newegg.com (I know Maxtor drives come with a nice utility for doing it, but where's the fun in that Wink )

I had thought that Knoppix had stopped making their distros due to some new Euro patent issues, but looks like the latest distro v3.3 is dated NOV 19 2003
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Post Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 3:36 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Knoppix and other live-CD type distros have always been pretty cool in my book. I like to blow non-techie minds by pulling the IDE cable from my hard drive and proceed to load up Knoppix. It always makes for a good show.

Let us know how your backup goes Exclamation

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Post Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 3:52 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
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Post Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 7:48 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
posted this in wrong spot. Can someone move this to the Linux area.
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Post Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 8:20 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
This is general *nix knowledge. You can do the same with a BSD/Solaris rescue something.
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Post Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 8:49 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
dump and restore are your friends...

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Post Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 7:31 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
dump and restore don't copy the whole disk but only the files etc. Not the deleted files
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Post Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 7:39 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
I still like this one.

Ghost for Unix
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
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Post Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 6:58 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
instead of
Quote:
dd if=/dev/hda | ssh user@remotehost /bin/dd of=/tmp/mypc_hda.img


Quote:
dd if=/dev/hda | gzip -c | ssh user@remotehost /bin/dd of=/tmp/mypc_hda.img.gz

Don't now if it will save traffic but it will save harddisk space
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