[Klug-general] hard drive image

[J D Freeman]

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On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 04:43:06PM +0100, Evan Ingram wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 15:41 +0100, J D Freeman wrote:
> > dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 bs=1M 
> > 
> > replace hda1 and hdb1 with source and destination respectively.
> 
> Can i just run that whenever from the live system?

Ideally you don't want either filesystem mounted at the time. 

> What happens when i want to re-image from the backup? Boot from the
> backup and then do the same as before? Or do i need to boot from a live
> cd or something?

Swap if and of commands.

J
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