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This is an old revision of Archiving made by coolpup on 2010-09-27 03:38:47.
Using the dd command
"Dd is like Symantec Norton Ghost, Acronis True Image, Symantec Drive Image. You can perform disk drive backup, restore, imaging, disk image, cloning, clone, drive cloning, transfer image, transfer data, clone to another drive or clone to another machine, move Windows XP to a new hard drive, clone Windows XP, clone Windows, transfer Windows, hard drive upgrade, duplicate a boot drive, duplicate a bootable drive, upgrade your operating system hard drive, Tired of re-installing WinXP Windows XP?"http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/learn-the-dd-command-362506/
when using the dd command the source and target disks/partitions:
must not be the same
must be unmounted
_References
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=453827#453827http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-do-i-make-linux-filesystem-backup-with-dd.html
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/ddcommand.htm
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/saw27/notes/backup-hard-disk-partitions.html
http://lazysystemadmin.blogspot.com/2010/07/creating-hard-disk-image-file-it-is.html
http://www.backuphowto.info/linux-backup-hard-disk-clone-dd
