[aklug] Re: Repairing an NTFS volume in Linux

Quoting Michael Figley <michaelfigley@yahoo.com>:

>
> JFFR,
>
> I've been using fsarchiver (via SRCD 1.55-beta9).
>
> It can backup partitions in a snap!
>
> faster and smaller than partimage, et. al.
>
> Boot from CD, mount your target: NFS server, USB drive, 2nd hard drive,
>
> or whatever, then, use fsarchiver to create a logical image of 1+
>
> partitions (saved in one file).
>
> Here's the best part:
>
> fsarchiver can *restore* the image to a *smaller* partition
> than the original ( assuming original was not full )
>
> The docs say not production ready tho'
>
> I've been thru several NTFS+ext4/3 save/restore cycles and have
> not detected any problems.
>
> ( After trying every other open source imaging solution i could find,
> fsarchiver fit my bill )
>
> I'll probably never use dd again!
>

So this would be somewhat like ghost? I'm going to have to give it a =20
try anyway.

Mike B.

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Received on Thu Nov 4 20:39:37 2010