Seeing as Puppy can boot up and see my Winpoop drives as data drives it seems a natural to use as an imaging backup utility. I don't speak Linux so forgive me if the following is rubbish.
I know that the "dd" command will make and restore an image, right? dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/sda1/mybackup should create an image of everthing including the MBR and stuff but it will be a 160Gig file and there is only about 20 Gigs of actual stuff on there.
1) Is there a way to do a "dd" that will only get the used sectors?
2) Can it be piped (is that the right word?) though gzip or something to create many say 2 Gig compressed files rather that one HUGE one? Is there a way to activate a display so I can see what's going on during the process?
3) Am I reinventing the wheel here? Maybe something already exists to do this.
Thanks
A Linux Dummy
Script wanted to backup my Windows partiton
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Caveat emptor: expect an occasional syntax or variable SNAFU with some of the examples due to Puppy's use of Busybox
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