Re: Backingup/restoring by partion

[Christopher Pharo Glæserud <glaserud-debuser@orakel.ntnu.no>]

Glenn Davy, 

> I thought dd may simply do the job of backingup/restoring the partition, but
> as I understand it the disk would need to be repartioned first each time (as
> dd would only take contents of partion, not the partition itself. This will
> do at a pinch, but I'm wondering if there are any tools out there
> specifically for the job.

dd will dump your entire disk (including partitions) if you do

dd if=/dev/hda

or whetever your disk device is.

-- 
regards,

Christopher Pharo Glæserud