On Thursday 24 April 2008 05:02:31 am Micha wrote: > I need to wipe my hardrive for some repair and I want to back it up. I > would prefer to just backup the debian partition and not the entire > harddrive. Is it possible to do either with dd? Yes, but it's not particularly flexible compared to other options. > seems like it should work > for the entire drive, would it work for a single partition if I restore > previous partition sizes? Yes, that's the limitation. > How do I backup my active drive/root partition? do I need a live cd or is > it possible to do from a running system? The Hard Disk Upgrade HOWTO covers this for the most part, although regular backups should be part of your game plan. Faubackup is a great package for that. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca
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