Re: [orca-list] Does anyone know of a program for backing upa computer that works with orca?

[Jose Vilmar Estacio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Hi Janina,
As a suggestion, the following command:
dd if=/dev/sda3 |bzip2 >/home/backup.img.bz2
Janina Sajka wrote:
> You use the dd command either in a terminal window or from a console.
> You should be root to backup a partition. Assuming the partition you
> want to backup is mounted at /dev/sda3, you might use a command like:
>
> dd if=/dev/sda3 of=/home/sda3-backup.img
>
> This will create a file in /home, called sda3-backup.img, which will be
> an exact, byte by byte copy of your /dev/sda3 partition.
>
> Clearly, you must have sufficient free space on /home for this to work,
> so check that with:
>
> df /home
> df /dev/sda3
>
> For long-term storage, you will probably want to compress this file,
> perhaps like this:
>
> tar cjpf sda3-backup.tar.bz2 sda3-backup.img
>
> Janina
>
>
> mike writes:
>    
> > I typed dd and lost speech. I'm sure there is more to that command, can you give me a idea how to use it?
> > What I have is a windows partition that I want to back up and restore when I replace the hard drive.
> > Thanks Mike.
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> >
> > ----- (Original Message) -----
> > From: "Janina Sajka"<janina rednote net>
> > Date: Monday, August 25,  at 8:28 AM
> > To: Orca screen reader developers<orca-list gnome org>
> > Subject: Re: [orca-list] Does anyone know of a program for backing upa computer that works with orca?
> >
> >
> > You don't need a special distribution. Try using the 'dd' command that
> > has been there in Unix and Linux systems forever. Note you can also tar
> > and bunzip the result to reduce the size of your backup image file.
> >
> > mike writes:
> >      
> > > Hi, this may be a little off topic, but I need something that works with Orca, so thought this was the place 
> > > to ask.
> > > There are some Linux distributions like PING-2.01 aimed at providing tools for backing up a partition. Does 
> > > anyone know of a program for ghost or backing up partitions I can install in ubuntu or what ever distro that 
> > > works with Orca?
> > > Thanks Mike.
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