Re: Duplicating my hard drive?

[robotti]

>Yury Umanets wrote:

>Hello,

>Why you don't want to use dd?

>   My worry with dd is that it a) takes really long (the hard drive I was
>   taking about is about 4% full, so a smarter tool might be better), b)
>   I am not familiar with exactly how dd affects block devices and c) if
>   there's a small error among the billions of bytes, it might all go to
>   hell. Of course, a) is survivable, b) could be cured (RTFM, ne?) and
>   c) is a question of experience... which is why I'm posting here.

You can use 'partimage' on the RIP Linux rescue CD.

http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip

The partition image program 'partimage' saves partitions in the ext2,
ext3, reiserfs, jfs, xfs, ufs, ntfs, fat16, and fat32 formats to an
image file. Only used blocks are copied to save space and increase
the speed. The image file can be compressed, in gzip or bzip2 formats.

http://www.partimage.org