Am Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2008 07:39:17 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > Dude, I'm getting a Dell! > > It's gonna come with Vista, and I have to use it that way for work. > But I want to > put a Linux partition on there. So I need to repartition. > > Having learned to be cautious, I'm wondering if there is a good open-source > way to back up about 300GB of NTFS such that I can restore fairly smoothly. > It has to be fairly fast, so file-by-file copies are probably going to > suck. I'll have 100MB > ethernet to a big-enough drive.
You may try bacula, it has a Windows client. rsnapshot may also work, see the FAQ. > Then, I'm wondering about partitioning tools. I can use > PartitionMagic 7.0. I've heard > of gparted, but not used it. Any advice? I used BootItNG (the partitioning part of it) in the past. Works quite well and I never lost a bit of data. Bye... Dirk
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