On 2011/10/29 03:00 (GMT+0200) Carlos E. R. composed:
On Saturday, 2011-10-29 at 10:09 +1030, Rodney Baker wrote:
Anyway, I've dumped the Windows partition (now 43GB) and the recovery partition (10GB, near enough) with dd if=/dev/sda<1,2> of=
to a terabyte USB drive, but my question is this. Should I backup the partition table from the original drive as well, to ease the process of restoring it back to its current state before I completely blow away these 2 partitions of the HDD in the laptop? What is the correct way to do this, apart from pen and paper?
I would backup the entire HD using dd. Ie, using if=/dev/sdX. It copies all, not each partition separately. For this situation it is better, IMO.
I don't like using any more storage space than necessary for backups, so I would use an app that makes a compressed image of the entire HD instead of DD (DFSee, but likely there's some FOSS that could do the same). -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org