Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 01/10/2013 01:25 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
I'm helping my neighbour fix his PC, and I want to backup the disk(s) before I re-image it. I've been away from Windows for so long that I forget - is it sufficient to simply rsync everything from NTFS to my backup disk (which won't be using NTFS)?
Many thanks in advance.
This depends on how you provide the backup to the re-surrected Windows. But in general, I'd say NO: NTFS ACLs are just pain.
I'd try to use an external USB drive and create a partition on it with identical (or bigger) size of the original file system. Then just 'dd' the partition to that drive in a Linux rescue system.
Hi Berny yes, that was my first thought too, but the disk is 1.5Tb with only 100Gb used, so I was hoping to reduce the copy time. Having thought about it some more, using dd is probably the right way though. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (3.8°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org