<div>I used to: dd if=/dev/hda | gzip > /backups/backup.gz for just about all my backups.. dumping straight to a file is as fast as the drive/interface it. Things really get slow with gzip..</div>
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<div>One other thing I liked to do to cut down on image size was:</div>
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<div>dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/junk</div>
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<div>Once the disk is full, rm /tmp/junk..</div>
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<div>Although as of recent Partimage is my preferred backup.. It lets you backup to file, with and without compression, locally or over network, and even supports NTFS..</div>
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<div>-Mike</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/20/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew J. Hughes</b> <<a href="mailto:mhues@verizon.net">mhues@verizon.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I actually know nothing about the card however I was wondering if<br>anybody else had enough experience flesh out the suggestion I am about
<br>to make. At one point I had imaged a partition of windows by dd<br>if=/dev/windows_partition of=windows_backup_image. It is also my<br>understanding that you can pipe it to bzip2 in the same process so the<br>whole thing is done in memory and shrinking the files size considerably.
<br>Thus I would imagine the reverse is also true that you can jam you Linux<br>partition into a file, install windows and flash the phone, jam windows<br>into a file, and then unjam the the original Linux back to where it was.
<br>It has been so long since I did it I don't remember the exact details<br>but there are howto's out there. I think that it is closely linked to<br>setting up loopback devices for not having to change cds. Depending on<br>
processor speed you may have to do most of it overnite, I don't recall<br>how long it actually took and I do tend to run a slower processor on my<br>breakit boxes.<br>Caveat: windows does not play nice with others so you may have to
<br>finesse the booting.(thou I think grub will solve that issue)<br>Caveat: dd is incredible powerful so you better make sure you get it<br>right, or you could blow out your drive contents.<br><br>my 2 cents<br>-matt<br>
<br>Ryan Moszynski wrote:<br><br>>I've noticed we have some verizon people on the board. I'm going to<br>>get the Kyocera KPC650 - evdo card<br>><br>><<a href="http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=planFirst&action=viewPhoneDetail&selectedPhoneId=1600">
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=planFirst&action=viewPhoneDetail&selectedPhoneId=1600</a>><br>><br>>with the intention of setting it up to work with Mepis on my laptop.<br>>I know that this card can be made to work with linux, however
<br>><br>><<a href="http://kenkinder.com/evdo-pc5740/">http://kenkinder.com/evdo-pc5740/</a>><br>><br>>says that you must:<br>>""""Install with Windows<br>><br>>Boot up to Windows and get the card activated and working in Windows.
<br>>It will ask you to download the latest coverage maps. I'm not sure,<br>>but I think when you do that it actually reflashes the card with some<br>>information about signals to broadcast. The coverage map update is
<br>>superstition on my part, but I think you do need to activate the card<br>>in Windows before it will even work in Linux. Correct me if I'm wrong<br>>(or not).""""<br>><br>>Now, i used to have a dual boot machine, with mepis and windows, but i
<br>>wiped out my windows partition so i could build a /linux from scratch/<br>>system (which was great fun by the way and i highly recommend the<br>>experience.)<br>><br>>So, I would be greatly pleased to learn that the above website is
<br>>wrong, and that i am not going to have to replace mepis with windows,<br>>initialize the card, reinstall mepis after reformating the windows<br>>partition and then configure the card to work with mepis. Now that i
<br>>think about it, if i need windows to initialize, i'll probably need to<br>>boot into it every once in a while to update the card which would mean<br>>i would have to find some room for a permanent xp install(can windows
<br>>live on 7gigs?)<br>><br>>So, if anyone knows anything about this card or verizon evdo w/ linux<br>>cards in general, i'd appreciate the help.<br>><br>>ryan<br>><br>>_______________________________________________
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