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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/30/2014 11:03 AM, Normand Marion
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<div>use dd.<br>
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Be carefull dd does not permit error.<br>
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If you want all your drive...boot from CD/DVD linux
image.<br>
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Open a terminal<br>
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Plug-in an external device on a USB port<br>
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dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sd? bs=10M<br>
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refer to the dd's man page to see exactly what your doing.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2014-06-24 14:35 GMT-04:00 John Hupp <span
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
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looking for a freeware disk imaging program that
supports/offers:<br>
__ imaging of Windows and Linux partitions in a single
image-the-disk operation that includes the boot sector and
related structures<br>
__ bootable disc can do offline image backup and restore<br>
__ image to spanned DVD’s<br>
__ good compression<br>
__ free for business as well as personal use<br>
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Notes on a few of the programs I have considered:<br>
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Clonezilla doesn't know how to span to DVD's.<br>
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Promising newcomer Aomei Backupper has no stated support for
ext4 partitions.<br>
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Redo Backup is a front-end for partclone, and I have seen no
documentation indicates that it supports spanned DVD's.<br>
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In short, everything that I have looked at in the past or
now in a fresh new sweep falls short on one point or
another.<br>
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I'm willing to fudge on my desire for a single
image-the-disk operation if I could find a recipe or
documentation on how to use a partition-oriented tool with a
script that uses several succeeding operations to build a
complete drive backup. Needless to say, I would want to
arrive at both backup and restore scripts.<span
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Thanks for weighing in, Normand.<br>
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But in this thread we have already worked over the prospect of using
dd. Much of the exchange explored the idea of using dd in
conjunction with utilities that zero-fill free space (as a
preliminary step) and then compress and split the resulting dd
archive, finishing up with burning those splits to DVD's. But that
idea stalled at the point where there was no apparent way to input
the DVD splits to dd during a restore. (Also a challenge with
removing the boot disc and replacing it with a data disc, but I
imagined that could probably be solved with a small distro that
boots to memory.)<br>
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One could, of course, recombine the splits on a USB hard drive
before using dd for the restore, but if a USB hard drive were part
of the recipe, I would simply use Clonezilla.<br>
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