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I need to restore my Win 7 install which will reset my drive to the state Windows was in when I created the restore image - pre Arch.
All of my Linux partitions (/home /swap /boot FAT32 data) are in an extended partition, /dev/sda4.
I can use dd to backup each individual partition to an external drive, but I think that is error prone. dd will not copy /dev/sda4 and the partitions it encompasses (sda5-sda8).
I stumbled upon
sfdisk -d /dev/sda4 > backup-sda.sfdisk
but I believe it just backs up the partition table and not the actual partitions and data.
Any insights or utilites that might be easier then dd'ing each individual partition and restoring that way? I'm worried about preserving swap, etc.
Last edited by bsilvereagle (2011-08-10 21:04:08)
Vaio F11: i7-720 QM | 8 GB RAM | Nvidia GT330m
Windows 7 | openSuse 11.4 KDE | Arch Linux e17/KDE
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Sounds like a good job for fsarchiver! It will save whatever partitions you tell it to, then restore them to another partition when you're ready. It'll put all 4 partitions in the same file if you want.
Scott
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Thanks Scott, that's exactly what I need.
Vaio F11: i7-720 QM | 8 GB RAM | Nvidia GT330m
Windows 7 | openSuse 11.4 KDE | Arch Linux e17/KDE
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Ditto the fsarchiver suggestion... I've used it hundreds of times and never a single failure with the backup or the restoration effort.
oz
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