Re: [NTLK] Alternative means of backing up a store?

From: Zac Bir (urbanape_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jun 21 2004 - 12:11:58 PDT


On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:57:08 -0500, George Bingham
<georgeb1962_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:34:08 -0400, Zac Bir <urbanape_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > are there no other means to backup a card to a Mac running OS X or to
> > another card?
>
> Hi Zac,
>
> I have not tried this myself - not currently running linux - but
> if you have a machine that can run linux with a pcmcia interface, or
> if you're using the ATA driver with a CF card or whatever (still need
> some kind of card reader) you may be able to backup the contents of
> the card with basic linux / unix utilities.
>
> This came from a previous NTLK message:
>
> dd if=/dev/sda of=ata16.img
>
> dd is the command that would read the contents of a card in
> /dev/sda and save it to a file (in this case, it was a 16 Mb ata
> card). Theoretically, the card images could have meaningful names for
> various combinations of setups or whatever, and would be writable back
> to the card using a similar command.

I understand the approach, but doesn't this rely on the original and
recipient of the restore being the same size? I'm trying to migrate
from my 16MB CF card to a 128MB CF card (or at least, a 124MB
partition on that card, leaving a 4MB partition to be my internal
store backup).

Zac

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