Here are a couple links... never used clonezilla myself.<br><br><a href="http://www.clonezilla.org/">http://www.clonezilla.org/</a><br><a href="http://fbim.fh-regensburg.de/%7Efeyrer/g4u/">http://fbim.fh-regensburg.de/%7Efeyrer/g4u/</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:21 PM, dave <<a href="mailto:dchampion@visionary.com">dchampion@visionary.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">kristau wrote:<br>
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:25 PM, LancePickett00<br>
<<a href="mailto:lancepickett00@yahoo.com" target="_blank">lancepickett00@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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I need to save a partition (like Ghost) Win XP,Vista & possibly<br>
linux-ubuntu, on dual-boot systems. What are some of your preferences for<br>
booting from a CD and dumping/restoring on an FTP server? Any other ideas?<br>
How about copying said image to a CD or DVD to carry as an emergency<br>
restore?<br>
<br>
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I have used a combination of gparted and dd in the past with a lot of<br>
success. You can find both of these utilities on most live distros,<br>
but I specifically used System Rescue CD (<a href="http://www.sysresccd.org" target="_blank">http://www.sysresccd.org</a>)<br>
for my systems. The following is a high-level overview of the<br>
process:<br>
<br>
Image creation:<br>
1) Boot system to be imaged to the live CD.<br>
2) Run gparted and resize the partitions to be imaged to about 1GB<br>
larger than their "used" space.<br>
3) Use dd to capture images of each partition. Most efficiently this<br>
is accomplished with an external USB/Firewire hard drive.<br>
* You can pipe the output of dd through gzip or bzip2 to compress<br>
the images further.<br>
* You can pipe the output of dd through netcat to "ship" the image<br>
across a network connection (unencrypted).<br>
* You can pipe the output of dd through gnupg to encrypt the image<br>
(-c option is good or symmetric cipher).<br>
* You can combine the above methods for additional functionality.<br>
4) After the images are taken, you can use gparted to grow the<br>
shrunken partitions again, if needed.<br>
<br>
Image restoration:<br>
1) Boot to the live CD.<br>
2) Use gparted to create/re-create/edit the partition table. Create<br>
the target partitions the same size as the shrunken version you<br>
created above.<br>
3) Restore the image from external media (or over the network with<br>
netcat) in the same manner it was created (i.e. pipe it through gunzip<br>
or gnupg).<br>
4) Use gparted to grow the restored partition.<br>
<br>
Note that there are utilities like g4l or partimage that automate a<br>
lot of this for you. I settled on this method because I was able to<br>
use it across various live CD's (knoppix, SRCD, Ubuntu, etc.). Most<br>
of the live CD's have dd and gparted, but many do not have g4l or<br>
partimage.<br>
<br>
You do have to keep some documentation with the images (shrunken<br>
partition sizes, table layout, etc.), but that can just be put in a<br>
text file. I especially liked the option to pipe the dd output<br>
through gzip, followed by gnupg, followed by netcat for secure<br>
shipment of images across a network. You can just dump the<br>
encrypted/compressed file out at the other end, or pipe it through the<br>
same utilities to reverse the encryption and compression, if desired.<br>
<br>
Hope that helps!<br>
kristau<br>
<br>
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G4L has a bootable CD image.<br>
<br>
I like it because it's really easy to use - you just follow the menus and it does all of the dirty work for you.<br><font color="#888888">
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-dc</font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
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