- The most complete backup of dev sdX with dd, tar, gz, xz
What is the most complete way to backup restore entire dev sdX (to from a file) including device partition table and partition flags, all possible metadata, owners, file permissions, ACLs, creation
- Getting Rufus to output to a disk image file - Super User
Solution 1: Read the image from a prepared flash drive Win32DiskImager can be used to do this Solution 2: Prepare your own hybrid ISO Most of modern Linux distros use so called hybrid ISOs They are valid ISOs that can be burned to a CD DVD, but at the same time they are valid disk images that can be written to a flash drive For example you could feed an Ubuntu ISO to Win32DiskImager and
- Between xz, gzip, and bzip2, which compression algorithim is the most . . .
Between xz, gzip, and bzip2, which compression algorithm gives the smallest file size and fastest speed when compressing fairly large tarballs?
- Is there a way to see any tar progress per file? - Super User
I have a couple of big files that I would like to compress I can do this with for example tar cvfj big-files tar bz2 folder-with-big-files The problem is that I can't see any progress, so I don't
- backup - Why is piping dd through gzip so much faster than a direct . . .
512 bytes was the standard block size for file storage in early Unix Since everything is a file in Unix Linux, it became the default for just about everything Newer versions of most utilities have increased that but not dd
- How to tar a directory preserving not only permissions, but ownership . . .
I have to compress a directory using tar gz preserving not only permissions, but ownership groups too And, in this directory there are many files that belong to many users
- compression - How to dump and compress MySQL database in Windows only . . .
Found a solution, download any command line compression utility, for example: xz (it gives good compression ration: from 1 2GB database size to just 100MB), put it on mysql directory using smb: , then run cmd exe, change directory to the mysql directory using cd, then execute: mysqldump -u user -p --all-databases | xz > all sql xz then just copy the 100MB backup file to Linux box via smb
- linux - How to tar directory and then remove originals including the . . .
Thus I was hoping to simplify things by making tar itself do the remove For example, imagine a backup script where the directory to backup (ie tar) is included as a shell variable If that shell variable value was badly entered, it is possible that the result could be deleted files from whatever directory you happened to be in last
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