12 Sep
2003
12 Sep
'03
19:59
Friday 12 Sep 2003 at 12:25pm, Philip Amadeo Saeli wrote:
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Jim Norton wrote:
Perhaps a stupid question or two.
(No, not stupid at all IMO.)
#1 - How does backup an entire installation using dd?
I use, e.g.:
# cd /huge-filesystem/lots-of-space # dd if=/dev/hda0 of=hda0.ext3.img bs=1024k
I have done this in the past, for example to "freeze" a filesystem image because I wanted to locate and restore a previously deleted file. I ran into the 2G (-1byte) file size limit when I did this, so I was forced to create two files <2G to transfer a ~4G partition. This was with SuSE 8.0-- do 8.1 and/or 8.2 now have large file support for all utilities so this problem goes away? Jim Cunning