On Saturday 08 December 2007 21:51, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > The disk needs to be partitioned before doing a restore with dd. It copies > partitions, not disks. It makes partition images, not disk images.
This is true if to copy partition, but dd can copy entire disks as well. No pre-partitioning required in that case. I recently backed up an entire disk with three partitions (including one encrypted) to a new disk (same model) without partitioning. Something along the lines of dd if=/dev/<drive_to_copy> of=/dev/<backup_drive> bs=8M Works fine. -- Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
