[TriLUG] Linux Backup and Restore to totally wiped partition

[Tarus Balog]

On 02/26/2013 11:52 AM, Brian wrote:
> Another potential advantage to the dd approach is, if you don't compress
> the images, you can mount them directly using the loopback device.  This
> could be useful if you realize you want to make a tweak to a config file
> without taking a new snapshot.

Hrm, I have an external hard drive that I could use for the images. So I
would just boot to some linux with dd and then:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/path/to/my/harddrive/sys1-backup

and then to restore

dd if=/path/to/my/harddrive/sys1-backup of=/dev/sda

?

-T
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