On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 10:18:05PM -0500, Greg Schmidt wrote:
>
> I was thinking that I should be able to backup and restore an entire
> partion with dd, but I thought I should run this idea by the list for a
> sanity check before I actually try it. Something like:
>
> dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=~/partition.img
>
Here's the problem with dd: it will happily copy over bad sectors. And
then, of course, your backup's useless. Rsync is a better alternative,
and can be used to "update" a backup already in place. But rsync is a
file-by-file, not an image backup. Avoid tar, as bad spots (for whatever
reason) in the middle of a tar archive will invalidate the rest of the
archive.
Paul
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