[vox-tech] Utility to image a hard drive

[Alex Mandel]

The classic tool is dd which makes a byte for byte exact copy, but this
includes the free space.
I can't remember what it's called right now but I'm sure it's on
http://www.clonezilla.org/

Which you'll have to do from a live disc anyways so get yourself a copy
and boot it up with the external drive attached and you should be good
to go.

Alex

Thomas Johnston wrote:
> I installed Debian (lenny) on my laptop last week and it is my first
> exposure to Linux.  I was wondering if anyone had a recommendation for
> a utility to "image" my laptop's hard drive to an external drive.  I
> would like to perform some kind of complete system backup now that I
> have the absolute essentials working.  There are lots of tweaks that I
> would like to try (nvidia graphics driver, sleep/resume functionality,
> etc, etc.), but I am certain that I will wind up royally screwing
> things up.  If possible, I would like to avoid spending another week
> just getting back to where I am now.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Thomas Johnston
> 
> PS - Thanks again to all those who helped me get Matlab installed!!
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