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List:       opensuse
Subject:    [opensuse]  Re: Backup of NTFS file systems with Linux
From:       Jim Henderson <hendersj () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-06-13 23:06:01
Message-ID: h11bcp$cg0$2 () ger ! gmane ! org
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On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:13:54 +0200, Malte Gell wrote:

> My idea was to create a ntfs file system on an external USB harddrive
> and make a backup of my Vista installation with the tar command. Would
> be faster that using dd which also clones empty space.

This won't make the system recoverable.  First, tar creates a file, so 
the underlying filesystem doesn't matter.  But tar only knows about *nix 
filesystem permissions as well.

Have a look at something like Ghost for Linux (g4l) instead.

Jim



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