Re: Dump and restore for Windows partitions

On Jan 30, 2008 2:08 PM, Roland Smith <rsmith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:18:53AM -0500, Martin Boulianne wrote:
Hi,
Maybe this is a dumb question, but I was wondering if I could use
dump (and restore) on Windows NTFS partitions.

Say I have a NTFS partition, ad0s1. Could I use:
# dump -b 4 -f /backups/winxp.dump /dev/ad0s1

Dump is only suited for FreeBSD's native UFS filesystem.

Or after a restore, Windows would be able to read the files? What about dd,
with something like:
# dd if=/dev/ad0s1 of=/backups/winxp.bck bs=4k

This should work, I think. But it will take up a lot of space, because
it will copy the every sector (even unused ones).

Unless there are special features of NTFS that you use, you could mount
the volume, and make a backup with zip(1) or tar(1). Note that with this method
you will probably lose any NTFS attributes.

The port sysutils/ntfsprogs contains programs like ntfsclone and
ntfscp. Maybe those can be of use?

Probably the best tool to completely backup an NTFS partition is a
windows-based tool.

Roland
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Hi Roland,
Well, from its man pages, ntfsclone seems very promising!!
If it is restored to a different partition than the one it was backuped from,
Windows won't boot. But that's easy to fix...

Anyway it's for backup purpose, so I shall use it on the same partition.
Moreover, I use FreeBSD's boot manager, so I don't give a crap =P


Thanks! =)
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