[dundee] Image hard drive to file

[Chad Wollenberg]

The answer lies with the program called dd
I have imaged machines using the Helix live disk using dd, but never on a
live system, so I'm not positive how it works. I believe Arron knows about
it though. Here is one tutorial I found on the web.
http://www.linuxweblog.com/dd-image

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Scott McGurk <mcgurkorama at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Hi guys, Im about to start messing about with a hard drive and I want to
> image it to a file, so I can restore it incase I mess up?
>
> Anybody any ideas how to go about this, Ive looked around, but no luck..
>
> The drive i want to image is mounted as a second drive in a FC8 system.
> The drive has an install of redhat on it.
>
> Cheers!
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