Re: [GLLUG] Dual-Boot Copy?

[Benjamin Cathey]

----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Houser

>->> I agree.  You can't top dd for image restoration and backup, but if you
>->> are just interested in the data, a filesystem level backup is much
>->> better.  If you can afford to just copy from one filesystem to another,
>->> I'd recommend creating the new partition then using rsync.  Otherwise,
>->> you are probably looking at tar archives.
>->> 
>->> Personally, I'd recommend keeping as little information on FAT or NTFS
>->> as possible.  Although NTFS is a lot more stable than FAT, I have still
>->> seen plenty of filesystem corruptions.  The data will overall be much
>->> safer on reiserfs or ext3 with full journaling enabled.

Well, the windows side has to be NTFS.  I've never used rsync and wouldn't know the flags, etc to use it to begin with.

If I understand correctly, you are recommending creating the partitions on the new drive (using gparted or whatever) and then just using rsync (which I understand is like 'super copy' maybe xcopy vs copy in DOS terms) to migrate ALL the info from one drive to the next.  Partition to Partition.  And this will work with NTFS?  Could you give me and example of the command and what flags I would use (to not lose timestamps and file permissions.)  

Also, what about the boot sector?

Thanks,

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