Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:33:46 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Martin Boulianne <frzburn@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dump and restore for Windows partitions Message-ID: <20080130163346.GD79702@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <2942dae0801300618h69e6870eh6baafccaa51886ec@mail.gmail.com> References: <2942dae0801300618h69e6870eh6baafccaa51886ec@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:18:53AM -0500, Martin Boulianne wrote: > Hi, > Maybe this is a dumb question, but I was wondering if I could use > dump (and restore) on Windows NTFS partitions. > > Say I have a NTFS partition, ad0s1. Could I use: > # dump -b 4 -f /backups/winxp.dump /dev/ad0s1 Well, I htink it would work for a FATnn slice, but I don't know about NTFS. > Or after a restore, Windows would be able to read the files? What about dd, > with something like: > # dd if=/dev/ad0s1 of=/backups/winxp.bck bs=4k The problem is that dd copies essentially byte-by-byte and so it might not restore in the fashion you wish. Label blocks and file links would all have to be identical - which they might not be in a real life situation. But, give it a try. Copy it with dd and then restore it with dd back to a different slice and see what happens. ////jerry > > Thanks!! =) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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