Re: Backing up whole disk

["Sergio Cuéllar Valdés" <herrsergio@gmail.com>]

On 8/28/06, T <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I tried to backup my whole partition with tar:
>
>   tar -cvzf /mnt/.../cache11.tgz .
>
> but when testing the archive result with
>
>  tar -tzf /mnt/.../cache11.tgz
>
> It ends with the following error, without explaining what's wrong:
>
> gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> I thought about it and think the reason might be that I'm backing up to a
> vfat volume, which might have some serious limits on file size (but
> unfortunately, that's my only backup option now).
>
> If so, how can I backup my nearly 20G partition using vfat volume?
>
> rar can do multi-volume but can it understand all the special Unix files,
> symlink, hard links, named pipes, dev, etc?
>
> tar can do multi-volume too, but "You should only type 'y' after you
> have changed the tape; otherwise tar will write over the volume it just
> finished.".
>
> Any of the *commonly used* archive tool can achieve this?

Hello,

maybe you could try with dd.

And if you have partitions, that would be easier.

dd if=/dev/hda of=/tmp/partion_hda.img bs=1k, for example.

Best regards,
Sergio Cuellar


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