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On Friday 28 March 2008, Stroller wrote: |
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> I deal with h0sed Windows installations for my customers all the |
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> time. I regularly boot a Knoppix CD and copy the whole C: drive to a |
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> portable disk so that I have a complete backup. I find it |
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> reassuring to use Linux for this purpose because I feel confident |
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> that cp or rsync will copy _every file on the drive_ without just |
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> silently ignoring those marked with the hidden flag, or bitching |
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> about permissions. |
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I prefer to save the entire partition with PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost) |
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or equivalent tools to avoid gotchas with charsets. |
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rsync and cp are excellent, but you have to mount the partition with the |
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right options not to loose coherence in file naming. |
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Everything else in your post is no more no less what I do to rescue all |
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those boxes people bring to me :-) |
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Starting from the uninstall of bloated antivirus! |
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Great post |
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Francesco |
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Linux Version 2.6.24-gentoo-r3, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Thu Feb 28 22:23:31 |
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CET 2008 |
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One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4408.81 Bogomips Total |
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aemaeth |
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