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This is an old revision of Archiving made by coolpup on 2010-09-26 09:36:22.
"Dd is like Symantec Norton Ghost, Acronis True Image, Symantec Drive Image. You can perform disk drive backup, restore, imaging, disk image, cloning, clone, drive cloning, transfer image, transfer data, clone to another drive or clone to another machine, move Windows XP to a new hard drive, clone Windows XP, clone Windows, transfer Windows, hard drive upgrade, duplicate a boot drive, duplicate a bootable drive, upgrade your operating system hard drive, Tired of re-installing WinXP Windows XP?"
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/learn-the-dd-command-362506/
The disks/partitions must be unmounted first.
References
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=453827#453827
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-do-i-make-linux-filesystem-backup-with-dd.html
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/ddcommand.htm
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/saw27/notes/backup-hard-disk-partitions.html
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/miscellaneous/54070-dd-command.html
http://lazysystemadmin.blogspot.com/2010/07/creating-hard-disk-image-file-it-is.html
http://www.backuphowto.info/linux-backup-hard-disk-clone-dd
