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Backup and Restore HDD Linux
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| ## Create disk image | |
| ## | |
| ## 1. Boot from a liveCD or liveUSB. | |
| ## 2. Make sure no partitions are mounted from the source hard drive. | |
| ## 3. Mount the external HD | |
| ## 4. Backup the drive. | |
| dd if=/dev/hda conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | gzip -c > /mnt/sda1/hda.img.gz | |
| ## Restore the Disk | |
| gunzip -c /mnt/sda1/hda.img.gz | dd of=/dev/hda |
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