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gzip < /dev/sda > mybackup.img.gz I've had to restore from these backups several times and it has always worked. An additional thing I do on the disk to be backed up before backing it up is: dd if=/dev/zero of=zzz.zero to a file in each partition and then immediately delete the files. In other words, filling each partition with zeros so gzip can compress those areas down to almost nothing. I can almost picture gzip saying, "Wow 5 Gig of zeros. So exciting!" |
