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Re: Best way to clone and restore hard drive?
05/02/15 11:51 PM
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> CloneVDI and the MS backup tool will only create a file the size of the data on your
> drive that is not zeroed out. So you will want to use a util like sdelete first. If
> you had a big file on there but deleted it at some point the data is still there but
> the metadata to find it is gone. But from the POV of the clone tool there is data
> there.
That's not even true: the MS Backup tool will not copy unused blocks whether they're zeroed or not as it's NTFS-aware. Disk2vhd isn't the same thing as the MS Backup utility.
> I think one of the requirements of the MS backup tool is a separate drive.
No, you can back up to any partition that you aren't making part of the backup.
> I have done the linux command cat a few times to compress the drive too. Something
> like 'cat /dev/hdb > gzip -9 back.zip'
The standard filename extension for gzip files is '.gz' and that command won't work at all. I think you meant something like 'gzip -c9 - < /dev/hdb > back.gz' but whatever you do, make sure you remount the partition read-only before trying that. Also you really shouldn't be telling people to do things you clearly don't understand yourself
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