RE: Tar/GZip & Parted

[Bob Horton]

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.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tal Danzig [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 4:22 PM
> To: Bob Horton
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Tar/GZip & Parted
>
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> In this case, do you really need a backup of the entire partition? or
> just the data in it?  If the later is the case, then why don't you just
> tar/gzip the contents of the partition?
>
> - Tal
>
> * On Fri May 17, 2002 15:56:04 -0600, Bob Horton wrote:
> > How hard would it be to created a duplicate of a partition and
> tar/GZip it.
> >
> > What I'm hoping to do is take a 40G drive and create a
> duplicate/backup of
> > it on another drive but I don't really want to use 40G to hold
> the backup
> > given I've only used 15G of the original 40G drive!
> >
> > Additionally, if I've got 2 drives, one with all the backup
> partitions and
> > one that's absolutely clean, can Parted create the new partitions for me
> > directly?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Bob Horton
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