Re: From linux; restoring a NTFS partition

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 01:31:31 -0800, szcs wrote:

Douglas Mayne wrote:
dd with gzip could actually produce smaller backups, because
I don't think ntfsclone uses any compression.

Ntfsclone gives you the choise, like dd, to use your favourite
compression.

Backup:

ntfsclone -s -o - <partition> | gzip > partition.img.gz

Restore:

gunzip partition.img.gz | ntfsclone -r -O <partition> -

The backup files usually are much smaller than the ones generated by
dd+gzip.

Good idea. Thanks.

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Douglas Mayne

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