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This is an old revision of dd made by coolpup on 2011-01-24 15:36:10.
Drive/partition duplication, imaging, transferral and restoration.
Verify installed version by using the command-line interface:
# dd --version
Usage:
dd --help
WARNING: YOU MUST KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING OTHERWISE ALL YOUR DATA MAY BE DESTROYED
Perform dd operations with unmounted drives/partitions only (a LiveDVD, or USB, is useful in this case)
Creating a duplicate partition (sdb1) of sda1 partition (where the target partition must be greater in capacity):
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4096 conv=notrunc,noerror
Creating a compressed, duplicate image file of the sda1 partition:
dd if=/dev/sda1 bs=4096 | gzip -fv1 > sda1partition.img.gz conv=noerror
http://www.zdnetasia.com/drive-and-partition-backups-with-dd-62203014.htm
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/learn-the-dd-command-362506/
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=453827#453827
http://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://www.backuphowto.info/linux-backup-hard-disk-clone-dd
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=54231
