[QCLUG] Drive Imaging.

[Leif Theden]

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i have a question...  when tar'ing the partition, then untar'ing it, does it
keep the file permissions?

On 6/21/06, Mark Riedesel <klown@revealed.net> wrote:
>
> You could use dd to just do a backup of the mbr/partition table (first
> 512 bytes)
>
> dd if=/dev/sda of=backup_mbr.img bs=512 count=1
>
> then writing it back is as simple as swapping the if= and of= values.
>
> then just tar up the partitions.. In the past I've used tar with
> permission preservation enabled (-p) for entire root partitions, and
> they worked fine after unpacking them to an empty partition later on.
>
> tar -czvf partition.tar.gz /dev/sda1
>
> Just some ideas.
>
>
>
> Brandon Griffis wrote:
> > Just wondering what people out there use for creating hard disk images?
> > I'm looking to take an image of a locally connected (USB) hard drive
> > including the MBR that's formatted as FAT16.  (it's running DOS 6.2)
> >
> > Many years ago I used Ghost, but it seems that the newer versions of
> > Ghost require the backup go across a network connection (there is no
> > option to create an image of a locally connected HD, I even asked
> > Symantec support about it).
> >
> > I've come across PartImage for Linux that supports all the major FS
> > formats, but it only takes an image of a partition, there's no way to
> > simply image the entire drive.  It also has an option in the program
> > that says "Restore an MBR from the imagefile", but there is no
> > discussion about that option in the documentation or much anywhere I
> > could find online.  Everything I could find about PartImage seemed to
> > claim that you had to use dd and sfdisk to get the MBR and partition
> > info in addition to getting the image from PartImage.  Having to use
> > three programs seems a bit overkill to me for simply wanting to get a
> > drive image backed up.
> >
> > dd would do the job, but the HD is 32GB and I know dd will read every
> > bit (not just the used ones) so it would take a very long time and take
> > up a lot of space when the OS and program on the drive only uses a few
> > hundred meg.
> >
> > If anybody has experience with PartImage and can verify the "Restore an
> > MBR from the imagefile" option works, or if anybody knows of another
> > free drive image utility I would greatly appreciate hearing about it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gamble
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