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Re: Wild backup Idea



I wonder more.

The image which will be output by 'dd' will be the size of the dev/hda or the
size of the total files ?

By the way, i don't have so many fingers to count how many times i deleted
partions by accident.
All the erases was only workstation with one unique exception, when i was
really newbie in linux i done "\rm -r /" :-)

Eli Marmor wrote:

> > Can I do from linux partion  "dd if=/dev/hda of=hda.img" and then put it
> > back with "dd if=hda.img of=/dev/hda" ?
>
> Yes. At least if the backuped system and the restored one are the
> same machine, with the same configuration, and hda resides on the
> same place and the same size in both cases.
>
> But if you are going to use files as replacements for partitions,
> why don't you make one more step and move to VMware?  Or better,
> wait a little and go directly to the soon VMware 2.0 ?
>
> > why i did it is a very strange story but lets leave it :-)
>
> It's much more than "very strange"; When did you see your psychiater
> recently?  ;-)
> (I remember that I removed a UNIX disk on a DEC's RL02 of PDP-11
> many years ago, when I was child. It just did a "reverse" backup -
> i.e. copied the backup disk onto the original disk...).
>
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