On Thu, May 07, 2026 at 10:33:06AM +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > just a question: Is there a tool in debian, which can create partition images > of mounted harddrives? > > I searched, but those I found, are all requesting to create from unmounted > devices. Looks like dd is promising, bur partclone, clonezilla, parted and so > on are all want an unmounted system. > > Please note, my aim is not getting the simple data (thus I could easily use > rsync), but want a full backup with partitions creating from a running system > (like clonezilla does). This system may not be shut down! > > The question is: Does such a tool technically exist at all and is that, > what I want, technicalyl possible a all?
> I saw a similar tool for Windows years ago (I bleive it was "AMANDA"),which > could do this within a running Windows. But Windows is not linux, so maybe > this could npot be compared. > > Thanks for your thoughtfulness and a short advice. Short advice: - Choose between "image copy" and "backup" - Click on this link https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=amanda+linux&ia=web > Best > Hans Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse
