Cloning an EXT4 partition

[Kevin O'Gorman]

For the images, I have been using tar, dd, ntfsclone and gzip with no
problems.
The experiment that failed used partclone..

I also just noticed that ntfsclone by itself is not enough to preserve a
bootable Windows partition.  You have to also copy the first 16 sectors
(see http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs-partition-boot-sector.htm)
I'm wondering if partclone.ntfs takes care of that.  I'll be experimenting.

On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 2:37 AM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 at 23:03, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > All my backup media are ext4 (maybe an occasional NTFS, but not lately).
> > So I still don't get it.  Nowadays it's almost always a 4 TB internal
> drive in
> > a USB 3 drive dock, and I formatted it EXT4 myself to give it names that
> > make sense in my backup scheme.  I have a dozen or so of these.
>
> OK, so it's not that, then.
>
> What are you using to make the images?
>
> Another plug for partimage:
> http://www.partimage.org
>
> It has an option to automatically split / recombine backups across
> multiple files of your chosen size. I think from memory it defaults to
> 2 decimal GB which fits nearly inside FAT32's 2 GiB restriction.
>
>
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