X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:to:subject:date:message-id:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :mime-version; q=dns; s=default; b=FzT8O8WVDjLHTaQ2LsR+PmRxfmRNl 0hM/n07nDe9zYcAUOchsXu6AHkeWXHSOnU/nH7Xsp2YLERDHYe1p2QZdTavXwTq/ ExkEigGcghPQWV3WO69NBfqTYWUzbQ2iDc0/LuwC14zK0BwELYobxUATcHVwf/qg NygNdf6TCt2bGM= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:to:subject:date:message-id:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :mime-version; s=default; bh=4fWcdv3YEi2BBqxsyTiTtZb4Ysg=; b=g5i Ot+d3qEi02ktk7luCBx9eYxkiwbU6BwgmpY1bJS4Hh9m8PkwJnOBhdxeKtWseg1c EsIEg3ObDpXR9/8jPwmYqWw3jVCQ5WUyN+w46alYDWvGJL+8sTawlKy5C/IG6aUF Llg/Rfxu8yF69CQmSJ/I4wGV9Z6KknpmQW0og3Xs= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: cluster-j.mailcontrol.com From: "Lemke, Michael ST/HZA-ZIC2" To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" Subject: RE: [cygwin] Re: Is a disk image created within dd "safe"? Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 11:16:40 +0000 Message-ID: <33EC3398272FBE47B64EE3B3E98F69A77A15495B@de011521.schaeffler.com> References: <55E772CF DOT 4070807 AT redhat DOT com> <6F760D1B8B0E4196A66D0FE8765FE671 AT black7> In-Reply-To: <6F760D1B8B0E4196A66D0FE8765FE671@black7> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id t83BH0gB011674 On Thursday, September 03, 2015 12:23 AM Jason Pyeron wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Eric Blake >> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 6:06 PM >> >> On 09/02/2015 03:57 PM, Clint Olsen wrote: >> >> > I'm also interested in generating images to preserve the >> entire disk. >> > What I'm wondering is whether doing this on a live system through >> > Cygwin would produce a safe, bootable disk image or if the the APIs >> > that Cygwin has to use or having the disk mounted would make this >> > unreliable? > don't do it with out snapshots... >> There are various solutions that CAN capture an accurate >> point-in-time disk snapshot. > >For cygwin/Windows use the Volume Shadow Service (VSS). I have used (XP) >cygwin dd and rsync to take (clone) images from the VSS managed drive. > Could you elaborate a little? How does this VSS thing work? I am always confused with Windows disk management when it isn't a single disk. Once I can use dd and rsync I am fine. Thanks, Michael -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple