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| From: | Daniel Quinn <gentoo@×××××××××××.org> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick | ||
| Date: | Wed, 30 Mar 2016 11:08:57 | ||
| Message-Id: | 56FBB3BA.6050605@danielquinn.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick by Meino.Cramer@gmx.de | ||
| 1 | On 29/03/16 17:18, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | The usbstick I want to make an initial backup is 64GB of size. |
| 4 | That means, I will backup mostly zeroes. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | You could just use dd to take a full backup and then compress it. If it |
| 7 | is indeed mostly zeros it’ll compress very well: |
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| 9 | |# dd if=/dev/usbstick | xz > usb.xz | |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Of course you can use bzip, lbzip, gzip, etc. instead of xz too. |
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| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick | Meino.Cramer@×××.de |