Re: tar whole windows partition

From: Sz. Csetey (szcs_at_abuse.co.uk)
Date: 05/11/04

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    theoryboy@my-deja.com (Peter Saffrey) wrote in message news:<ced73313.0405110241.56135af9@posting.google.com>...
    > "joe haydn" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message news:<V%Wnc.1424$zO3.1319@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>...
    > > hi all. As a way to backup (clone) the whole Windows XP partition, would it
    > > be possible to use linux dual boot and use tar to archive the whole windows
    > > partition (ntfs) file system?
    > >
    >
    > The NTFS support for Linux is still at an early stage

    Read support is full, write is partial but it is safe. You can
    overwrite files, resize, backup and restore NTFS (what OP asked
    about), etc. See at: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/status.html

    > and from my experience not terribly reliable.

    Probably you use the obsolete, broken driver (Debian, Slackware, Red
    Hat?), not the rewritten one.
     
    > You may be able to tar up the whole lot,

    You can't. NTFS has forks, encrypted, compressed, etc files that tar
    can't handle.

    > Also AFAIK, the way Windows stores the registry is
    > not as transparent as Linux, which just uses regular files. You may
    > find that taring does not capture all these registry details
    > sufficient to boot the OS.

    Registry is a binary file and shouldn't have this problem. However the
    whole tar idea is broken and OP should use partimage (experimental) or
    ntfsclone (stable).

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