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Re: backing up a drive



On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Doofus wrote:

Only do this in single user mode though, right? Or better still, on a

Make sure that the MS-Window system is not active in any way (through a virtual system or whatever).

The dd can be from a live cdrom or from a small partition on the box reserved just for this purpose. The latter is no good in the case of a dead disk but is convenient otherwise.

Rob

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