Re: Ext3 --> NTFS Backup & Restore with Partimage 0.6.6



Why not just buy a spare 500GB disk and copy everything to it as the
backup? Much simpler than trying to squeeze your backup onto your Windows
partition.

I prefer to use an image program as backup, since it includes the in-
use,
config & system files (use Norton Ghost 2003 in Windows & want to try
similar for Linux).


when I make a backup of my system, I only take a backup of the config
files and my custom files, the rest can in worst case be got back with a
simple install that shouldn't take more than 20-30 minutes including
updates to latest version of files, then installing my custom files and
the config files and I have my system back, but I also have a rescue
system that I can use in case the daily in use install would get some
troubles.

As a normal user, system & config files would be 'locked' and unable
to be copied.
How do you backup/copy your system & config files? Which are the
important folders to be backed up?
(esp I want to include the updates to kernel, gnome, drivers &
applications)

1) Does anyone have experience whether the image can be successfully
restored from the NTFS partition --> ext3 Linux partition?
And also if partimage will auto-unzip the backed-up image file? (It
was gzipped, with medium compression level during backup).

In theory it should work, as the files aren't directly stored on the
NTFS file system but in the image file which is then compressed.
dd with gzip/bzip2 should work fine. (could be what they are using)

I did not get this (what is "dd"?)?
So, when I restore from the backed-up image
using 'partimage', it will 'unzip'/'decompress' the image file by
itself?

3) Does Windows (NTFS) --> Windows (NTFS) image & restore work
properly, with Partimage 0.6.6?
Should work, specially if the image file isn't stored on the file system
where it's restored to.

For Windows --> Windows backup & restore, will just stick to Norton
Ghost 2003,
(which I use from a DOS Boot CD).

.

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