Need help using Partimage

[jacatone]

I'm using Partimage booting in SystemRescueCD. It shows my main Kubuntu partition as sda1 and an extended partition I created as sda2. What commands in a terminal or GUI would I type to copy sda1 to 2 as a Gzip image backup using Partimage. The manual for Partimage is:

http://www.partimage.org/Partimage-manual_Usage

Thanks.

[3vi1]

Re: Need help using Partimage

I've never used "SystemRescueCD", but it looks like you're missing a step: First you need to mount one of your volumes from inside the extended partition. I've done this before using Knoppix.

For instance, say you have /home on sda5, in the extended partion:

mkdir /tmp/dest
mount /dev/sda5 /tmp/dest

Then, you can go into partimage and use /tmp/dest/backup_of_sda1.gz as the destination to write the backup to that partition.

That said, I'd highly recommend copying the image to a partition on a different drive. If SystemRescueCD supports nfs/smb mounts (like Knoppix does), you can even replace the above mount command with a network mount and copy the image to a completely different system (because you never know what can happen <G>).

-J

[jacatone]

Re: Need help using Partimage

I'm booting from the SystemRescueCD which contains Partimage. I know I have to mount my main Kubuntu sda1 partition. What commands would I use to copy sda1 to my extended partition sda2 using partimage?

[stealthbanana]

Re: Need help using Partimage

you will have to mount the target filesystem manually

mkdir /mnt/sda2
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2

then run partimage

in the target area to backup to, you will have to put

/mnt/sda2/mybackupfile

then it will work after choosig what options you need.

[Qqmike]

Re: Need help using Partimage

"then it will work after choosing what options you need."

... and you learn the commands and options from the manual, web sites, FAQ, etc.

[IgnorantGuru]

Re: Need help using Partimage

Just so you know, there's a fairly detailed how-to on partimage here...
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=13735.0