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2010-10-08 , 19:52
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I recently bought a new laptop and was wondering what is the best tool to backup my Windows Recovery Partition.

I have used GParted + a huge capacity NTFS USB stick and did a simple cp -rf recovery usb-stick

Is this enough? Has anyone tried this before?
 
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2010-10-08 , 22:23
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Some files are protected. Use dd tool instead.
 

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2010-10-09 , 09:53
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You mean:
Code:
dd if=/recovery of=/usb-stick bs=4096 conv=noerror
I just took a look at the DD wikipedia page and holy cow. The thing really knows how to scare you.

It is jokingly said to stand for "disk destroyer", "data destroyer", or "delete data", since, being used for low-level operations on hard disks, a small mistake, such as reversing the if and of parameters, can possibly result in the loss of all or some data on a disk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_%28Unix%29
 
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