[SWLUG] Taking a disk image

[Huw Lynes]

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 12:09 +0000, Bradley, Peter wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>  
> 
> Does anyone know of a tool that will take an image of all my disk
> partitions (Linux and Windows), and the MBR, so that I could – if I
> wanted – just slap in a new HDD and write the image to it such that it
> would then boot up and I’d be back to normal?
> 
>  
> 


As has been mentioned you can use cat/dd for this. If you want something
a bit more friendly take a look at Mondo Rescue
http://www.mondorescue.org/

Huw

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