Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/5/26 Owen Townend > 2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : > > 2009/5/26 Owen Townend > [snip] > >> > >> Not quite, the syntax is: > >> $ dd_rescue [options] infile outfile > >> '-' can be used to mean stdin/out > >> > >> Your command would be: > >> $ dd_rescue -v -l sda.log /dev/sda1 - | gzip > imag

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Owen Townend
2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : > 2009/5/26 Owen Townend [snip] >> >> Not quite, the syntax is: >> $ dd_rescue [options] infile outfile >> '-' can be used to mean stdin/out >> >> Your command would be: >> $ dd_rescue -v -l sda.log /dev/sda1 - | gzip > image.gz >> [snip] > > I wonder because of the sy

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Owen Townend
2009/5/26 Owen Townend : > 2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : > [snip] >> >> from what I read, sparse files is the empty blocks/spaces. I only need the >> real data to be as it were. Thanks for the tip. I'll try this one out though >> I'm wondering if logging still works by doing it like this >> $ dd_res

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/5/26 Owen Townend > 2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : > [snip] > > > > from what I read, sparse files is the empty blocks/spaces. I only need > the > > real data to be as it were. Thanks for the tip. I'll try this one out > though > > I'm wondering if logging still works by doing it like this > >

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Kelly Harding
2009/5/26 Owen Townend : > 2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : > [snip] >> >> from what I read, sparse files is the empty blocks/spaces. I only need the >> real data to be as it were. Thanks for the tip. I'll try this one out though >> I'm wondering if logging still works by doing it like this if you're

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Owen Townend
2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : [snip] > > from what I read, sparse files is the empty blocks/spaces. I only need the > real data to be as it were. Thanks for the tip. I'll try this one out though > I'm wondering if logging still works by doing it like this > $ dd_rescue -v /dev/sda1 -l sda.log - | gz

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/5/26 Owen Townend > 2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : > > There's a hard disk with bad sectors that I want to make a back up with > > ddrescue but the thing is, it is 1 TB and the backup location is also 1 > TB > > and that is the only one I could afford right now. How do I compress it > on > > t

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Owen Townend
2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : > There's a hard disk with bad sectors that I want to make a back up with > ddrescue but the thing is, it is 1 TB and the backup location is also 1 TB > and that is the only one I could afford right now. How do I compress it on > the fly while making an image out of it?

make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
There's a hard disk with bad sectors that I want to make a back up with ddrescue but the thing is, it is 1 TB and the backup location is also 1 TB and that is the only one I could afford right now. How do I compress it on the fly while making an image out of it? -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http