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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 22:53:03 +0100
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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linda w schrieb:
> I thought the above would yield an image backup of my windows partition.

=> http://www.systemrescuecd.org

I use it every day. A small gentoo distro with all necessary tools.
It can even copy the image to a remote backupserver running a special 
daemon. ~8 min for a 1GB root partition backup. Doesn't copy unused 
parts at the end of the disk. Can do bzip2, can read VFAT, FAT32 and NTFS.

> Would be cool if this worked "right" and would be open-software's 
> answer to the 60-70$ "disk image" program by "Overpriced SW Inc.".

As Brian said, some files are blocked by the OS.
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Reini Urban
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