jurij@device-image.de ha scritto:
> Please visit the homepage of DeviceImage-Project:
> http://www.device-image.de
>
> Disk images provide a powerful backup-restore solution and are exact
> copies of your hard drive which are created by using low level byte by
> byte copy operation. So even if your drive goes bad, you will still
> have an entire copy of your system that you can restore.

So, exactly like "dd"...

>
> zsplit and unsplit are Linux utilities.
> zsplit is a command line imager, which allows you to create an exact
> disk image. Finally it compresses the output image file and splits it
> into chunks of defined size to fit exactly the size of storage media
> (CD, DVD or HDD).

dd if=/dev/disk of=/dev/stdout | tar czf backup.tar.gz | split -b <size>

>
> unzsplit is a command line restore tool. It restores files produced by
> zsplit to its origin, i.e. splitted and compressed image files will be
> uncompressed, tied together and restored to the original device or
> partition.
cat piece1 piece2 ... piecen | tar xz | dd ...

Do we really need those utilities?
Regards
Sergio
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