Compressed Disk Image App for Porteus
Compressed Disk Image App for 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
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
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Re: Compressed Disk Image App for Porteus
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
@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
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
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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
I'm a newbie but I'll try it out! Just to be sure, this creates a disk image, yes?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
gzippigzCode: 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
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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
Thanks!
JIm in NYC
Re: Compressed Disk Image App for Porteus
Slaxmax & donald & fanthom, I'll check these out! I just need to create the highest compressed disk image!donald wrote:http://clonezilla.org/
Thanks!
Jim in NYC
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Re: Compressed Disk Image App for Porteus
@jimwg
Make sure you test the restore aspect of your backup before writing over your Mint flash drive.
Make sure you test the restore aspect of your backup before writing over your Mint flash drive.
Re: Compressed Disk Image App for Porteus
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
Jim in NYC
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Re: Compressed Disk Image App for Porteus
FAT has 4GB limit so save it on some other filesystem.
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Re: Compressed Disk Image App for Porteus
better choice can be backup only important data (user folder) and delete all system files that are not changed by you.