[opensuse] windows question
Since I know many of you are system administrators and have to know about Windows as well as linux, I thought I would ask this simple windows question. On my dell laptop which is dual boot, there is a partition with the label 'WINRETOOLS' that is about 450 mb in size. There is also a partition with the label 'Image' that is about 12 gb in size. They both have the ntfs file system. I have a bash procedure I have written for making daily/weekly backups of my hard drive, and I use rsync to clone my ext4 partitions. I use 'ntfsclone' to clone the windows partition, so that if my hard drive fails I can swap out the backup and be back up and running, complete with dual boot. I do use windows on occasion with this computer, so I want to keep the windows backup current. However, I haven't done anything to set up backing up windows images or anything like that. I haven't wanted to get too into the windows side of things which results in microsoft logging your life on their servers. But my question is, does windows automatically keep the 'WINRETOOLS' partition and/or the 'Image' partition updated when windows is being used? If so, I will need to clone those partitions also. Thanks in advance. -- George Box: 42.3 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Laptop #1: 42.3 | Gnome 3.20 | AMD FX 7TH GEN | 64 | 32GB Laptop #2: 42.3 | Gnome 3.20 | Core i5 | 64 | 8GB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2018-03-17 09:12, George from the tribe wrote:
Since I know many of you are system administrators and have to know about Windows as well as linux, I thought I would ask this simple windows question.
On my dell laptop which is dual boot, there is a partition with the label 'WINRETOOLS' that is about 450 mb in size. There is also a partition with the label 'Image' that is about 12 gb in size. They both have the ntfs file system.
I have a bash procedure I have written for making daily/weekly backups of my hard drive, and I use rsync to clone my ext4 partitions. I use 'ntfsclone' to clone the windows partition, so that if my hard drive fails I can swap out the backup and be back up and running, complete with dual boot.
I do use windows on occasion with this computer, so I want to keep the windows backup current. However, I haven't done anything to set up backing up windows images or anything like that. I haven't wanted to get too into the windows side of things which results in microsoft logging your life on their servers.
But my question is, does windows automatically keep the 'WINRETOOLS' partition and/or the 'Image' partition updated when windows is being used? If so, I will need to clone those partitions also.
Thanks in advance.
The 12 GB partition is almost surely the recovery partition from the manufacturer. You only need to image it once and keep it safe. The 450 MB partition is probably a windows boot partition and changes little. I would back it up. Both with ntfsclone or plain dd. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)
On 03/17/2018 07:58 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 12 GB partition is almost surely the recovery partition from the manufacturer. You only need to image it once and keep it safe.
The 450 MB partition is probably a windows boot partition and changes little. I would back it up.
Both with ntfsclone or plain dd.
Thanks. I used ntfsclone but have been considering dd also. Glad all these linux tools are helpful in managing a complete system, like my dual boot pc, writing a backup program in bash, etc. -- George Box: 42.3 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Laptop #1: 42.3 | Gnome 3.20 | AMD FX 7TH GEN | 64 | 32GB Laptop #2: 42.3 | Gnome 3.20 | Core i5 | 64 | 8GB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2018-03-18 05:03, George from the tribe wrote:
On 03/17/2018 07:58 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 12 GB partition is almost surely the recovery partition from the manufacturer. You only need to image it once and keep it safe.
The 450 MB partition is probably a windows boot partition and changes little. I would back it up.
Both with ntfsclone or plain dd.
Thanks. I used ntfsclone but have been considering dd also. Glad all these linux tools are helpful in managing a complete system, like my dual boot pc, writing a backup program in bash, etc.
You may consider using clonezilla on the entire machine. Notice that you also need to clone the partition setup, to be able to recreate the hard disk from scratch. And the boot sequence. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)
On 18/03/18 13:35, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2018-03-18 05:03, George from the tribe wrote:
On 03/17/2018 07:58 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 12 GB partition is almost surely the recovery partition from the manufacturer. You only need to image it once and keep it safe.
The 450 MB partition is probably a windows boot partition and changes little. I would back it up.
Both with ntfsclone or plain dd.
Thanks. I used ntfsclone but have been considering dd also. Glad all these linux tools are helpful in managing a complete system, like my dual boot pc, writing a backup program in bash, etc.
You may consider using clonezilla on the entire machine.
Notice that you also need to clone the partition setup, to be able to recreate the hard disk from scratch. And the boot sequence.
Not necessarily true. I cloned a 320GB Windows drive onto a 2TB drive to create a mixed-boot machine. I can't remember the exact details, but it was something like 4 primary partitions (yuck), so I created 4 GPT partitions to match. They were C, D, recovery, and tools iirc. Recovery and tools I created the same size. C and D I created 400GB partitions each. Used dd to copy the partitions across and then ntfsresize or something from the rescue distro. Installed SUSE, which recognised the Windows partition, configured it to boot, and it worked flawlessly. Also installled gentoo, which is still broken because I never managed to get networking to work... supposedly gentoo is about choice, but the documentation to get systemd working is abysmal ... Cheers, Wol -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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