Porteus

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.

Jim in NYC

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

@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 pigz

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

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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

I'm a newbie but I'll try it out! Just to be sure, this creates a disk image, yes?
Thanks!

JIm in NYC

donald wrote:http://clonezilla.org/

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

Thanks!

Jim in NYC

@jimwg

Make sure you test the restore aspect of your backup before writing over your Mint flash drive.

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?

Jim in NYC

FAT has 4GB limit so save it on some other filesystem.

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