Re: Tar/GZip & Parted

[Tal Danzig]

* On Fri May 17, 2002 17:25:22 -0600, Bob Horton wrote:
> I guess I wanted to be able to create a new drive from the images directly,
> without having to boot a floppy version of Linux (or equivalent), create the
> partitions, format them, then copy all the data back onto them.
> 
> I guess my desire was an improved restore process rather than a simplified
> backup process.

There is a program called partimage (or at least that's the Debian package 
name) that might be what you want.  Here's the description:

 Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX partition imaging utility: it saves partitions
 in the Ext2FS  (the linux standard), ReiserFS (a new journaled and powerful
 file system), NTFS (Windows NT File System)  or FAT16/32 (DOS & Windows file
 systems) file system formats to an image file. Only used blocks are copied.
 The image file can be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space,
 and split into multiple files to be copied onto removable media (ZIP for
 example), burned on a CD-R, etc.
 .
 This makes it possible to save a full Linux/Windows system with a single
 operation.  In case of a problem (virus, crash, error, etc.), you just have
 to restore, and after several minutes, your entire system is restored
 (boot, files, etc.), and fully working.
 .
 This is very useful when installing the same software on many machines: just
 install one of them, create an image, and just restore the image on all other
 machines. Then, after the first one, each installation is automatic made,
 and requires only a few minutes.

- Tal

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