Re: Backing up an entire hard drive

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

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? seems like it should work for the entire drive,
> would it work for a single partition if I restore previous partition sizes?
>
> 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? 
>
>  Thanks

Look into the clonezilla live-cd. It does exactly what you describe.


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