Backing up Windows (the hard way)

By Jan Wagner in Family on

Sometimes you need to do things you don't like and you don't know where you will end up. In our household there exists one (production) system running Windows. Don't ask why and please no recommandations how to substitute it. Some things are hard to (ex)change, for example your love…

[selfnote] Cloning/Backing up NTFS systems

By Jan Wagner in Planet on

For some reasons, you may need to clone/backup NTFS based systems. Lets say your NTFS system is located at /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 is a spare partition where you can store your image. At first you need to boot a live system to take an image: # mount /dev/…