On Jan 30, 2008 2:08 PM, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:18:53AM -0500, Martin Boulianne wrote: > > Hi, > > Maybe this is a dumb question, but I was wondering if I could use > > dump (and restore) on Windows NTFS partitions. > > > > Say I have a NTFS partition, ad0s1. Could I use: > > # dump -b 4 -f /backups/winxp.dump /dev/ad0s1 > > Dump is only suited for FreeBSD's native UFS filesystem. > > > Or after a restore, Windows would be able to read the files? What about dd, > > with something like: > > # dd if=/dev/ad0s1 of=/backups/winxp.bck bs=4k > > This should work, I think. But it will take up a lot of space, because > it will copy the every sector (even unused ones). > > Unless there are special features of NTFS that you use, you could mount > the volume, and make a backup with zip(1) or tar(1). Note that with this > method > you will probably lose any NTFS attributes. > > The port sysutils/ntfsprogs contains programs like ntfsclone and > ntfscp. Maybe those can be of use? > > Probably the best tool to completely backup an NTFS partition is a > windows-based tool. > > Roland > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) >
Hi Roland, Well, from its man pages, ntfsclone seems very promising!! If it is restored to a different partition than the one it was backuped from, Windows won't boot. But that's easy to fix... Anyway it's for backup purpose, so I shall use it on the same partition. Moreover, I use FreeBSD's boot manager, so I don't give a crap =P Thanks! =) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"