On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:21:10PM +0100, Rikard Johnels wrote:
On Monday 02 February 2004 20:54, Alexandr Malusek wrote:
Rikard Johnels
writes: I am trying to back up a 6 gig harddrive with "dd" ... dd: writing to '/mnt/image.dd': File to large 4195234+0 records in 4195234+0 records out
Is there a easy way to get around the problem?
Use the skip and count options of dd to save the partition in several files.
How do i fix the system for larger files?
Which network FS do you use?
The source FS is NTFS The targer FS is ReiserFS (on the network disk)
Both can handle files larger than 2 GiB, see the Large File Support chapter in the Admin Guide.
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Would using DD be a good way to backup/restore a system from bare metal? For example. I have a system running and configured with a few years of configuration changes etc. If I lose a drive and have to rebuild from scratch after intalling the base system from CD's it would be darn near impossible ( in a small amout of time ) to get the system fully configured as it was. What if I did a DD of my entire system ( all partitions ) and then reinstalled from the SuSE CD's and simply wrote out the dd image files appropriately? Is this a good idea? If it could work, what would be some pointers to doing it? I really don't use DD much ( only in the old days to create bootable linux floppies ). -- Jim Norton - http://www.jimnorton.org 2 + 2 = 5 for large values of 2