On Tuesday 03 October 2006 05:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My son just got himself a Lenovo thinkpad with wifi, ethernet, a tablet, > and Windows XP. For reasons I will not go into here, he wants to make > sure his Windows XP system remains functional even though he prefers > Linux, and plans to dual-boot between Windows and Gentoo. (I'm the > debian user, and this is of concern to me, so it's not *totally* > off-topic on Debian-user). > > There is no CD drive on this system (reduces the weight), but it > will boot from USB drives. > > He should be able to connect to my LAN, which has large NFS-accessible > storage. > > What he wants to do is make a complete backup of his hard disk (possibly > partition by partition) before he does anything to install any linux, > makes any real use of windows, and especially before he connects to the > net using Windows. He's not stupid. There is a Windows rescue > partition on the disk, but we're not naive enough to believe that it > will be unaffected by real trouble either. > > My question is: what recommendations do you have as to appropriate > tools for this? Presumably some kind of Linux live CD, but what > flavour, and what software from the live CD. We also have to be able > to restore from this backup when the entire machine is hosed, of course. > I use a small dedicated linux partition to do this to run backups from. NTFS partitions I use ntfsclone from the package ntfsprogs. (I have also used partimage but found the UI awkward). For linux partitions I use dar or tar.
IIRC these are all available in stable and on Knoppnix. HTH Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
