Re: [gentoo-user] Seeking advice about backup and partitioning; preparing to dual-boot Linux onto Vista drive

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2008 07:39:17 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman:
> Dude, I'm getting a Dell!
>
> It's gonna come with Vista, and I have to use it that way for work.
> But I want to
> put a Linux partition on there.  So I need to repartition.
>
> Having learned to be cautious, I'm wondering if there is a good open-source
> way to back up about 300GB of NTFS such that I can restore fairly smoothly.
>  It has to be fairly fast, so file-by-file copies are probably going to
> suck. I'll have 100MB
> ethernet to a big-enough drive.

You may try bacula, it has a Windows client. rsnapshot may also work, see the 
FAQ.

> Then, I'm wondering about partitioning tools.  I can use
> PartitionMagic 7.0.  I've heard
> of gparted, but not used it.  Any advice?

I used BootItNG (the partitioning part of it) in the past. Works quite well 
and I never lost a bit of data.

Bye...

	Dirk