[Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: NTFS backup on Linux

[Szakacsits S. <sz...@si...>]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 dk...@gm... wrote:

> since it might happen once in a while that WindowsXP crashes on my
> system ;-), i'm looking for a quick method to completely reinstall
> WindowsXP. Therefore I want to ask you if there is any possibility to
> mirror the contents of a NTFS partition to linux? Or is it sufficent to
> simply create a copy of all windows files via the linux cp command?

Look for ntfsclone in ntfsprogs-devel package (and optionally in the
linux-ntfs-dev mailing list archive for comments, how to build and use it
if you can't figure it out yourself -- I didn't write the man page yet so
ntfsclone isn't built by default).

	Szaka