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This is an old revision of dd made by coolpup on 2010-09-28 08:35:56.
dd command-line bit-stream duplicator
Drive/partition duplication, imaging, transferral and restoration.
# dd --version dd (coreutils) 6.9 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, and Stuart Kemp.
For usage instructions enter into the command-line interface:
dd --help
WARNING: YOU MUST KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING OTHERWISE ALL YOUR DATA MAY BE DESTROYED
Perform dd operations with unmounted partitions only (use a LiveDVD)
Creating a duplicate partition (sdb1) of sda1 partition (where the target partition must be greater in capacity)
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4096 conv=notrunc,noerror
Creating a compressed image of the sda1 partition
dd if=/dev/sda1 bs=4096 | gzip > partition.image.gz conv=noerror
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/learn-the-dd-command-362506/
References
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=453827#453827http://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.backuphowto.info/linux-backup-hard-disk-clone-dd
