Re: Filesystem-aware disk imaging

2007-03-28 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Mar 27, 2007, at 21:28, Ben Scott wrote: Just mount the partition and run rsync, tar, or just cp -a. Even that's a trick - tar and cp ignore certain types of special files. rsync seems to be the only tool that really works:

Filesystem-aware disk imaging

2007-03-27 Thread Ben Scott
Hi all, Sorry for the on-topic post. ;-) Anyone here played around with disk imaging tools which are filesystem aware? Like partimage[1] and Clonezilla[2]? I'm especially interested in experience with FAT and NTFS partitions. 'nix is very well-behaved in this area, so an exact disk image

Re: Filesystem-aware disk imaging

2007-03-27 Thread Bill Mullen
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:28:28 -0400 Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone here played around with disk imaging tools which are filesystem aware? Like partimage[1] and Clonezilla[2]? I'm especially interested in experience with FAT and NTFS partitions. 'nix is very well-behaved in this

Re: Filesystem-aware disk imaging

2007-03-27 Thread Ted Roche
Ben Scott wrote: Sorry for the on-topic post. ;-) It's welcomed! Anyone here played around with disk imaging tools which are filesystem aware? Like partimage[1] and Clonezilla[2]? I'm especially interested in experience with FAT and NTFS partitions. Yes! Partimage has helped me ghost