[TriLUG] backup up a laptop disk for replacement

[Roy Vestal]

if I remember correctly:
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/path/to/file.img

Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:

>Roy Vestal wrote:
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>>or just dd from drive to file then new drive from file
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>okey, i'm thick and don't do this sort of stuff often (thank
>goodness!)..  any special arguments to dd?  and how do you
>specify/determine the amount of data to dd?  this specific
>thing i've never done before.
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>i *don't* have enough disk space on the laptop, so i'm going
>to have to xfer it across the net.  i *don't* have spare ide
>bays, and don't want to keep popping the skins anyway, so
>the drive-size adapter idea, thoguh interesting, doesn't
>help much.  i have no idea how to access remote samba filesystems
>from a non-rl3 environment; since i expect i'll be using
>one of the alternate consoles from the rh install cds, how
>is that done?
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>please, small words and complete steps, as though i'm a newbie (which
>i aam for most of the actions needed for this, at least for linux).
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>i find it interesting that no-one has commented on dump/restore.
>does no-one even use them anymore?
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