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Imaging System with Ubuntu + PartImage
This article concisely describes how to create a bootable usb drive that can clone and restore a hard disc. I just wanted to write this down because I lost quite some time making this work twice already.
- Download and burn the Ubuntu Live CD v9.10 and boot from it.
- Attach the usb drive and format it (using GParted from the admin menu) in two partitions:
- fat32 (a few gigs suffices), where the bootable OS will be installed.
- ext3 (the rest), room for the images.
- Install the OS on the first partition and make bootable (admin menu -> create bootable usb drive)
- Eject the cd and boot from the usb drive
- Install PartImage: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install partimage. You must first enable some repositories to make this work, see http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/sources
- You can now use PartImage to create and restore images.
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backup, disk image, restore
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