Best Disk Imager To Archive Porteus By

[jimwg]

Greetings:

I wish to disk image my Porteus flash as a backup. The closest Linux disk imager I could find is the Disk utility in Mint which sadly doesn't compress the image either. I tried the Partimage in Puppy in a 3way set-up as recommended by Mint mavens and ended up stuffing my flash with an incomplete image file that nearly lost the flash weren't a long folder hunt for the bad file because there was no obvious way of directing the image backup to a hard drive for safekeeping.

Any hints much appreciated!

Jim in NYC

[donald]

I use a clonezilla-live-CD to backup whole usb flash-drives or partitions
Look here:
http://clonezilla.org

[brokenman]

I've always used dd which is built into linux or a better option when it comes to recovery is dd_rescue.

[beny]

if you do not have a big root directory alias home,the best way for me it is create an iso,you have a snapshot of the system working,btw if the mkiso script is always on the place.

[jimwg]

if you do not have a big root directory alias home,the best way for me it is create an iso,you have a snapshot of the system working,btw if the mkiso script is always on the place.

Thanks for that tip!!!

Jim in NYC