<div>On 8/19/07, Tomislav Poljak <<a href="mailto:tpoljak@gmail.com">tpoljak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, I have dual boot ubuntu + win install on my disk and my question is: how can I create backup of my ubuntu partition? </blockquote></div> 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? <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/keeping-safe/C/backup-files.html"> https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/keeping-safe/C/backup-files.html</a>