Per Jessen
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.
Ewfacquire is in the 12.2 distro. It is like dd on steroids. It is easy to use and can create a encase image with compression.
From windows side, "ftk imager" is a free tool that will open the image and let you access a partition as a drive letter.
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