On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 15:25, Roman Joost wrote: > Does somebody know a better way to create an image of a existing > partition? > > I know dd=/dev/hda1 of=windows_partition.img, but the image has a size > of 3 GB. I thought about backup a fresh win98 installation, so i can write > the image back to the partition if windows goes crazy. I don't want > install all the drivers and time consuming reboots. > > Maybe someone know a good tool or some docs, which describes a good way > to backup the data like "dd". gzip or bzip2 the image. With an entire partition you should get mad compression on it. Thats probably what the other partition imagers are doing.
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