14 Jun
2009
14 Jun
'09
00:21
On Sunday 14 June 2009 01:06, 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.
Have a look at something like Ghost for Linux (g4l) instead.
Jim
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If you have space enough.. use dd to mirror the whole schabang?? -- /Rikard Johnels