-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2009-06-13 at 23:06 -0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:13:54 +0200, Malte Gell wrote:
My idea was to create a ntfs file system on an external USB harddrive and make a backup of my Vista installation with the tar command. Would be faster that using dd which also clones empty space.
This won't make the system recoverable. First, tar creates a file, so the underlying filesystem doesn't matter. But tar only knows about *nix filesystem permissions as well.
Then, there is the alternative of using a windows native archiving utility that knows about ntfs attributes; perhaps winrar or winzip? Of course, it would only be usefull for data recovery, not system, unless I'm mistaken. On FAT, I used a similar strategy: I had an initial image recovery, using windows tools, and then from linux I made a copy of changed files with attributes (with "mattrib"). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAko0QQoACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WT4ACfbG8O3LeHdtf2bg5h5VsgarKN XcAAoIKO5VVJ2vxG0c9sNLB/gufrTWgE =9zdL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org