[Linux-disciples] Backing up Windows machines

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
>>Another possibility is that I'd buy an external hard-disk
>>enclosure, and burn from the source hard drive directly to
>>the destination hard drive, without the intervening step of
>>the DVD. Then if a hard disk failed, I wouldn't even have to
>>restore from the DVD.
> This would be a lot easier. I'm pretty sure dd won't handle multi-DVD
> backups without some additional frontend package.

There's also the problem of the partition table. Normally, you would
start at sector 0 and go forward with dd; but you may not be able to
copy a partition table over this way if the target drive is not
identical to the source.
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