Hi,
Is it posible to backup a partition to a file and restore it after? All my tries has failed...any help?
thanks,
Diego
Diego . wrote:
Hi,
Is it posible to backup a partition to a file and restore it after?
Yes, this is possible. Just specify the name of partition (for example /dev/hda1) rather than the whole hard disk (such as /dev/hda).
All my
tries has failed...any help?
You can only restore on a partition of at least the same size (and same geometry (number of heads and sectors), if windows). Also watch out if you have dependencies between partitions (for example, one partition might contain a grub or lilo blockmap referring to sector offsets on another partition). If any such dependancy exists, all involved partitions need to be saved and restored together.
We successfully do single-partition saves and restores here at the LGL, and at lots of other places.
thanks,
Diego
Regards,
Alain