Thread: Backup - Makeing image of all device partitions
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tioubxancur is offline tioubxancur
2015-05-12 , 03:16
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Originally Posted by Ridd92 View Post
Got some following questions:

1. Is it better to clone whole drive disk, or all partitions alone?

2. How to prepare tablet to do a thing? I mean, when it's on, and the os is up will it be possible to clone entire drive? I'm not even sure if I can mount system partition under Linux PC. Should I run my
770 in flashing mode?

3. If Im not wrong, after I have cloned the hd in order to get it back to the device I should use:
# gunzip -c /path/to/backup.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdX
1. I would prefer the whole disk, as it would work even if you make changes in the partitions and then restore later.

2. No Idea about your device. I have an N9, and i would do the maintenance boot to mount the partitions and then do backup/restore. (I havent tried restoring yet, but have taken backup, works)

3. Yes, provided you have saved the disk in .gz format
# dd if=/dev/sdX conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | gzip -c > /path/to/backup.img.gz