Tony Nelson wrote:
On 09-11-23 12:35:00, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
...
I know this is a Fedora site and I am a diehard Fedora user,
but I also have a multiboot system... apologies to the purists.
Is it possible to backup and restore Xp/Vista to a different
drive/partition in the case of imminent drive failure? How is this
to be properly done?
I tried to use rsync from the original to a different partition
but this does not seem to work.
Help please?
There are various -ghost apps, but I've just used dd to a new drive,
copying the entire drive to a drive as large or larger. If it is
larger, I just extend the last partition to the rest of the drive.
IIRC, I usually haven't had to do anything else, but it might be
necessary to do a "Repair Install", at least with XP (I haven't used
anything more recent). A Repair Install is tedious but hasn't done any
harm when I've used it.
Just need a little more info:
How exactly did you use `dd'?
1) Did you have to mount the two partitions and: dd if=/mnt/a of=/mnt/b
I got an error saying they were directories
2) .. or did you use the RAW devices such as: dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1
Was there any options you used, such as block size or whatever?
Thanks!
Dan
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