ubuntu feisty backup

[Paul Ingelbrant]

On 8/19/07, Tomislav Poljak <tpoljak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have dual boot ubuntu + win install on my disk and my question is: how
> can I create backup of my ubuntu partition?


Use some Partition image sottware from windows..?

You could reade the partition with Device Dump:

$ sudo dd if=/dev/NameOfYourPartition of=PathToDestination bs=512

or to save space (and even some time?) pipe that through gzip:

$ sudo dd if=/dev/NameOfYourPartition  bs=512 | gzip > Destination file

The destination file probably shouldn't be on the same partition as you are
backing up... so
 you need to able to write to the windows partition unless you have more
partitions to choose from.

If you have another Linux-box where you want to store the image file:

$ sudo dd if=/dev/NameOfYourPartition of=PathToDestination bs=512 | gzip |
ssh AnOtherComputer 'cat >DestinationFile'

And to restore the backup:

$ ssh AnOtherComputer 'cat DestinationFile' | gunzip | dd if=-
of=/dev/NameOfYourPartition

Are you sure you'd not rather backup your home directory and make a new
installation on your new disk...? :-)

Maybe hubackup is capable?
https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/keeping-safe/C/backup-files.html
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