Cyconet Blog » windows http://blog.waja.info Just a place to be! Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:22:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ [selfnote] Cloning/Backing up NTFS systems http://blog.waja.info/2009/09/18/cloningbacking-up-ntfs-systems/ http://blog.waja.info/2009/09/18/cloningbacking-up-ntfs-systems/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:27:34 +0000 cyco http://blog.waja.info/?p=262 For some reasons, you may need to clone/backup NTFS based systems. Lets say your NTFS system is located at /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 is a spare partition where you can store your image.

At first you need to boot a live system to take an image:

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
dd bs=512 count=1 if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/sdb1/xp_vbox.mbr
ntfsclone -s -o – /dev/sda1 | bzip2 -9 -c > \
/mnt/sdb1/xp_vbox.img.bz2

To restore the image you just need:

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
dd count=1 bs=446 if=/mnt/sdb1/xp_vbox.mbr of=/dev/sda
cat /mnt/sdb1/xp_vbox.img.bz2 | bunzip2 -c | \
ntfsclone -r -O /dev/sda1 -

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