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Compressed Disk Image App for Porteus

Post#1 by jimwg » 14 Feb 2014, 15:31

Greetings!

Subject line says it all. Compressed Disk Image App for Porteus. I want to image and store away a Mint flash drive to clear it for Porteus. If there's none for Porteus I can make do with one that runs on Puppy.

Thanks for any hints.

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Re: Compressed Disk Image App for Porteus

Post#2 by fanthom » 14 Feb 2014, 16:25

you could use dd + gzip compression (change partitions to match yours):

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dd if=/dev/sdb6 | gzip > /mnt/sda1/backup.gz
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Re: Compressed Disk Image App for Porteus

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Re: Compressed Disk Image App for Porteus

Post#4 by Slaxmax » 14 Feb 2014, 18:33

@jimwg

Try pigz which is multithreaded gzip
http://zlib.net/pigz/

package i486
http://slackware.org.uk/people/alphagee ... -1_ejt.txz

package x86_64
ftp://ftp.yandex.ru/mirrors/agilialinux ... 6_64-1.txz

example
dd if=/dev/sdb6 | pigz > /mnt/sda1/backup.gz

see diference

gzip

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guest@porteus:~$ dd if=/dev/sda1 | gzip > /mnt/sdb2/gz-backup.gz
^C314110+0 records in
314109+0 records out
160823808 bytes (161 MB) copied, 10,031 s, 16,0 MB/s
pigz

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guest@porteus:~$ dd if=/dev/sda1 | pigz > /mnt/sdb2/pigz-backup.gz
^C1120759+0 records in
1120758+0 records out
573828096 bytes (574 MB) copied, 10,4082 s, 55,1 MB/s
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Re: Compressed Disk Image App for Porteus

Post#5 by jimwg » 15 Feb 2014, 00:57

Slaxmax wrote:@jimwg

Try pigz which is multithreaded gzip
http://zlib.net/pigz/

package i486
http://slackware.org.uk/people/alphagee ... -1_ejt.txz

package x86_64
ftp://ftp.yandex.ru/mirrors/agilialinux ... 6_64-1.txz

example
dd if=/dev/sdb6 | pigz > /mnt/sda1/backup.gz

see diference

gzip

Code: Select all

guest@porteus:~$ dd if=/dev/sda1 | gzip > /mnt/sdb2/gz-backup.gz
^C314110+0 records in
314109+0 records out
160823808 bytes (161 MB) copied, 10,031 s, 16,0 MB/s
pigz

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guest@porteus:~$ dd if=/dev/sda1 | pigz > /mnt/sdb2/pigz-backup.gz
^C1120759+0 records in
1120758+0 records out
573828096 bytes (574 MB) copied, 10,4082 s, 55,1 MB/s
I'm a newbie but I'll try it out! Just to be sure, this creates a disk image, yes?
Thanks!

JIm in NYC

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Re: Compressed Disk Image App for Porteus

Post#6 by jimwg » 15 Feb 2014, 00:59

Slaxmax & donald & fanthom, I'll check these out! I just need to create the highest compressed disk image!

Thanks!

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Re: Compressed Disk Image App for Porteus

Post#7 by Ed_P » 15 Feb 2014, 01:48

@jimwg

Make sure you test the restore aspect of your backup before writing over your Mint flash drive.
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Re: Compressed Disk Image App for Porteus

Post#8 by jimwg » 16 Feb 2014, 06:03

I tried all three examples given, and all I get after it seems to compress files is ERROR 27 File Too Large STDOUT. Maybe the file is corrupt as well?

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Re: Compressed Disk Image App for Porteus

Post#9 by fanthom » 16 Feb 2014, 07:58

FAT has 4GB limit so save it on some other filesystem.
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Re: Compressed Disk Image App for Porteus

Post#10 by tome » 16 Feb 2014, 20:37

better choice can be backup only important data (user folder) and delete all system files that are not changed by you.
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