When I first got my computer I made a disk image of the windows partition using a ubuntu disk to do a live boot without installing (and then just installed partimage with apt-get). Unfortunately, I am no longer able to boot with my CDROM drive, so I am wondering if it would be possible to install Wubi and then have it restore the windows image?
I am looking for a partition imaging program, like Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image, that will run on the PC (not from live-cd or USB) and can save the image onto a separate partition.
This question is motivated from a reply by Craig Sanders. Thanks, Craig!
In what case, are byte or block level backups, i.e. disk or partition image backups, more suitable than file-based backups?
So I just did a dd image of a partition and gzip'd it on the fly. After formatting the partition, I realized I forgot to get some files off the drive *doh*.
So I had to gunzip the image (109GB image gzip'd to 25GB) before I could mount it as a loop device.
My question is, does anyone know of a live tool (not ghost or any live CD) that can do an image of a drive but skip the empty blocks?
I'm looking at the differences between using a file versus a partition to store a virtual disk image in VM use. The common knowledge is that partition-based images are faster than file-based images because of a decreased overhead. It makes sense, but I've never seen any actual numbers.
My own testing bears out a different result.
Was told Partimage is a good utility to use when attempting to clone/save a HDD partition. Installed Partimage with Synaptic but when looking in apps, Partimage can't be found.
Where is it and how do you open Partimage?
Hi,
I had to replace a disk in my raid-1 and unfortunately, the rebuild didn't work. I have a backup of the system, so I set up a new raid.
The system partition is an image (with partimage), I have a /home partition for the data, and a swap-partition.
I used a Live-CD and created three partitions in (almost) the same size as the old ones.
I have an image of an existing partition generated with dd if=/dev/sdXN of=image.bin. Now I want to use this image as the basis for a virtual machine. I know how to convert the image into a format that VirtualBox can use.
The problem is that the "disk" image is really just the image of one partition and thus does not contain an MBR or a partition table.
I want to create an image of some directory tree that is writable directly to an USB drive, just like the images of many linux distributions.
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