Re: [orca-list] drive imaging assistance required

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

This from the terminal, but it can do what you want.
At a terminal, do sudo su
it might ask you for your password, provide it.
Then remount the partition you want to image as read-only, from memory, 
do:
mount /dev/hda1 -o ro
This if the partition you want to image is called hda1.
Then do:
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=imagefile.img
where imagefile.img is on another mounted partition.
So, first change to the directory where you want the image created.
To restore, unmount /dev/hda1 and do the reverse, IE
dd if=imagefile.img of=/dev/hda1
Note, you may not be able to unmount the partition if it is your root 
partition.
HTH, Willem
 

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Mobeen Iqbal wrote:

> Hello.
>
> my name's Mo, and i'm not only new to this list, but i'm new to Orca and
> Ubuntu as well, so please excuse my ignorance. i have been using ubuntu for a
> week or so now ever since it was recommended to me and on the hole, i find it
> works very well. but what i would like is a program, preferably with a GUI
> that could back up my hard drive partition and restore it. this needs to work
> with Orca. i'm not sure if Ubuntu is the distribution i should be using for
> this. i have installed partimage, but i'm not sure how to select some of the
> options using orca.
>
> any help on this would be greatly apreciated.
>
> cheers,
>
> Mo.
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