fabiolagana.net » cloning http://blog.fabiolagana.net 640 Kb should be enough memory for anybody Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:17:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Using dd to create disk images http://blog.fabiolagana.net/using-dd-create-disk-images/ http://blog.fabiolagana.net/using-dd-create-disk-images/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:23:57 +0000 Fabio Laganà http://blog.fabiolagana.net/?p=83 
Create a hard disk image:
 
 dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/home/hda1.bin
 
Create a compressed disk image
 
dd if=/dev/hda1 | gzip  > /home/hda1.bin.gz
 
Back up the MBR
 
 dd if=/dev/hda of=/home/hda.boot.mbr bs=512 count=1
 
Restore MBR (from a Live CD)
 
dd if=/mnt/hda1/home/hda.boot.mbr of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
 
Backup a drive to another drive
 
 dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb conv=noerror,sync bs=4k
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