Re: backup partition
I'll look into clonezilla and partimage later today. Yesterday I was using the kde partition manager to resize the ntfs partition my xp install lived on. Just my luck my linux install crashed. It's kubuntu 12.04.1 for amd64. Naturally when I got the system restarted, the ntfs partition was gone. Thankfully testdisk did recover it, but it still won't boot. Right now I'm moving everything I want to keep off that ntfs partition. After that's finished I'll nuke that partition, the only one on that hard drive. In the next day or two when I get round to it I'll reinstall xp on a smaller partition that will be just for xp and any programs I run on it. A second partition on that drive will be for anything I want programs running on xp to have access to. Now I have to decide whether to make that other partition ntfs or ext4 and install a driver on xp that will allow it to see the ext4 partition. Which would be the better option? thanks On 10/10/2012 03:14 PM, Stephen wrote: Partimage will do this for you. you can also look up clonezilla as it is a bootable iso built around this process and some nice scripts to make it easy to do. On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Derek Trotterexpat.arizo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for something on linux that would allow me to create image files to back up partitions. I guess something along the lines of Norton Ghost. I'm looking for something that's easy to use. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks Derek -- One mistake up here and it’s half a day out with the undertaker! - Fred Dibnah --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: backup partition
Run XP in VirtualBox on Linux. On 11 Oct 2012 01:27, Derek Trotter expat.arizo...@gmail.com wrote: I'll look into clonezilla and partimage later today. Yesterday I was using the kde partition manager to resize the ntfs partition my xp install lived on. Just my luck my linux install crashed. It's kubuntu 12.04.1 for amd64. Naturally when I got the system restarted, the ntfs partition was gone. Thankfully testdisk did recover it, but it still won't boot. Right now I'm moving everything I want to keep off that ntfs partition. After that's finished I'll nuke that partition, the only one on that hard drive. In the next day or two when I get round to it I'll reinstall xp on a smaller partition that will be just for xp and any programs I run on it. A second partition on that drive will be for anything I want programs running on xp to have access to. Now I have to decide whether to make that other partition ntfs or ext4 and install a driver on xp that will allow it to see the ext4 partition. Which would be the better option? thanks On 10/10/2012 03:14 PM, Stephen wrote: Partimage will do this for you. you can also look up clonezilla as it is a bootable iso built around this process and some nice scripts to make it easy to do. On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Derek Trotter expat.arizo...@gmail.com expat.arizo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for something on linux that would allow me to create image files to back up partitions. I guess something along the lines of Norton Ghost. I'm looking for something that's easy to use. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks Derek -- One mistake up here and it’s half a day out with the undertaker! - Fred Dibnah --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: backup partition
That's what I do... it is the best of both worlds. Seamless mode is pretty cool though I usually have it full screen on my second screen. I converted a KVM (proxmox) to run in virtualbox recently because I wanted USB support. Anyway... I second the Virtualbox recommendation. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: Run XP in VirtualBox on Linux. On 11 Oct 2012 01:27, Derek Trotter expat.arizo...@gmail.com wrote: I'll look into clonezilla and partimage later today. Yesterday I was using the kde partition manager to resize the ntfs partition my xp install lived on. Just my luck my linux install crashed. It's kubuntu 12.04.1 for amd64. Naturally when I got the system restarted, the ntfs partition was gone. Thankfully testdisk did recover it, but it still won't boot. Right now I'm moving everything I want to keep off that ntfs partition. After that's finished I'll nuke that partition, the only one on that hard drive. In the next day or two when I get round to it I'll reinstall xp on a smaller partition that will be just for xp and any programs I run on it. A second partition on that drive will be for anything I want programs running on xp to have access to. Now I have to decide whether to make that other partition ntfs or ext4 and install a driver on xp that will allow it to see the ext4 partition. Which would be the better option? thanks On 10/10/2012 03:14 PM, Stephen wrote: Partimage will do this for you. you can also look up clonezilla as it is a bootable iso built around this process and some nice scripts to make it easy to do. On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Derek Trotter expat.arizo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for something on linux that would allow me to create image files to back up partitions. I guess something along the lines of Norton Ghost. I'm looking for something that's easy to use. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks Derek -- One mistake up here and it’s half a day out with the undertaker! - Fred Dibnah --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: backup partition
Thanks Lisa. I thought about what you suggested, but I tried a couple of years ago and xp ran ok, but the games I tried to play on it didn't run right. Has virtualbox improved 3d support over the last couple of years? On 10/11/2012 10:08 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote: Run XP in VirtualBox on Linux. On 11 Oct 2012 01:27, Derek Trotter expat.arizo...@gmail.com mailto:expat.arizo...@gmail.com wrote: I'll look into clonezilla and partimage later today. Yesterday I was using the kde partition manager to resize the ntfs partition my xp install lived on. Just my luck my linux install crashed. It's kubuntu 12.04.1 for amd64. Naturally when I got the system restarted, the ntfs partition was gone. Thankfully testdisk did recover it, but it still won't boot. Right now I'm moving everything I want to keep off that ntfs partition. After that's finished I'll nuke that partition, the only one on that hard drive. In the next day or two when I get round to it I'll reinstall xp on a smaller partition that will be just for xp and any programs I run on it. A second partition on that drive will be for anything I want programs running on xp to have access to. Now I have to decide whether to make that other partition ntfs or ext4 and install a driver on xp that will allow it to see the ext4 partition. Which would be the better option? thanks On 10/10/2012 03:14 PM, Stephen wrote: Partimage will do this for you. you can also look up clonezilla as it is a bootable iso built around this process and some nice scripts to make it easy to do. On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Derek Trotterexpat.arizo...@gmail.com mailto:expat.arizo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for something on linux that would allow me to create image files to back up partitions. I guess something along the lines of Norton Ghost. I'm looking for something that's easy to use. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks Derek -- One mistake up here and it's half a day out with the undertaker! - Fred Dibnah --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: backup partition
Sadly Virtualbox can only allocare a maximum of 256mb ram to a VM for 3d acceleration, and it passes very minimal openGL. this looks great fro most things except most gaming. But there is hope on the horizon, Intel's VTd is making some good inroads to what we are after. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Derek Trotter expat.arizo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Lisa. I thought about what you suggested, but I tried a couple of years ago and xp ran ok, but the games I tried to play on it didn't run right. Has virtualbox improved 3d support over the last couple of years? On 10/11/2012 10:08 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote: Run XP in VirtualBox on Linux. *Snip* -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
backup partition
I'm looking for something on linux that would allow me to create image files to back up partitions. I guess something along the lines of Norton Ghost. I'm looking for something that's easy to use. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks Derek -- One mistake up here and its half a day out with the undertaker! - Fred Dibnah --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: backup partition
On 10/10/2012 01:25 PM, Derek Trotter wrote: I'm looking for something on linux that would allow me to create image files to back up partitions. I guess something along the lines of Norton Ghost. I'm looking for something that's easy to use. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks Derek Take a look at PARTIMAGE chk it out in your repositories --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: backup partition
dd if=/dev/sdXY of=my_backup Recover with: dd if=my_backup of=if=/dev/sdXY I'd go with tar though. Simple and bulletproof... ET Derek Trotter writes: I'm looking for something on linux that would allow me to create image files to back up partitions. I guess something along the lines of Norton Ghost. I'm looking for something that's easy to use. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks Derek -- One mistake up here and its half a day out with the undertaker! - Fred Dibnah --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: backup partition
Derek Trotter writes: I'm looking for something on linux that would allow me to create image files to back up partitions. From: kitepi...@kitepilot.com kitepi...@kitepilot.com dd if=/dev/sdXY of=my_backup Recover with: dd if=my_backup of=if=/dev/sdXY I'd go with tar though. Simple and bulletproof... tar is not appropriate for the general case. There are things that tar cannot back up and restore properly, like files which have absolute sector positions and filesystem metadata that tar doesn't know about. You find those things on NTFS partitions, HFS+ partitions, /boot when LILO is being used, and the slack space between the boot record and the start of the first partition when GRUB is being used. dd will *work* for the general case, but it's inefficient, especially the way you wrote the commands above. dd copies every block, including those blocks that don't need to be copied. Since you left the bs= off, it also uses a block size of 512 bytes, when you should be using bs=32k or bs=64k. partimage knows enough about most filesystems to only copy the blocks that are actually in use, and to retain sector position info. partimage also has an ncurses interface, which is a little better-looking and more friendly than dd. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
