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ewemoa:


Been trying out Redo Backup and Recovery to backup and restore a system partition for Windows XP.  (Mentioned earlier by ha14.)

Sample set up:

0. Prepare a minimal updated Windows XP (mine may have been somewhere in the neighborhood of 7GB).
1. Download and burn the Redo live cd.
2. After booting from the live cd passed the initial menu, choose the menu item to install to USB device (8GB was more than enough) and follow the screens...

Sample backup usage:

1. Boot from the USB device (here, this was much faster than via optical media).
2. Choose backup and follow the screens -- choose to save the Windows XP partition to the USB device.
3. Wait a bit (less than 10 minutes here).

Sample restore usage:

1. Boot from the USB device.
2. Choose restore and follow the screens -- choose to restore the image from the USB device.
3. Wait a bit (less than for backing up here).

Recommend testing with VirtualBox first.  FWIW, the following was a nice tip for getting VirtualBox to boot from USB:

  Boot a USB Flash Drive in VirtualBox @ pendrivelinux.com

The live cd comes with a few useful apps including gparted, palimpsest (aka Disk Utility), TestDisk, a disk wiper, and Chromium.

Redo appears to be a wrapper around partclone which IIUC is used by Clonezilla (also nice but more complicated to figure out IMHO).

Update: Found a tutorial for an older version (0.9.5?): http://www.oakdome.com/k5/tutorials/clone-with-usb-drive/clone-with-usb-drive.php -- fwiw, the version I used (1.0.1) looks different (especially what shows up after the initial boot menu), but the general flow seems similar enough.

multi usb noteHad some difficulty using the live cd iso from YUMI or Sardu (may have been both) so went with a dedicated USB device.

ewemoa:
Succeeded in placing redo 1.0.1 on an internal hard drive, leveraging grub4dos.  This is documented at:

  https://sourceforge.net/projects/redobackup/forums/forum/1169663/topic/4568603

ewemoa:
Have restored a number of times for various reasons and it appears to work well here.  Once booted into Redo, the actual restore takes a little over 3 minutes (though shutting down takes more than a few seconds).  The partition being restored is about 12GB and it is about half full -- though the actual restore image files total to a little under 3GB.

ewemoa:
Cobbled together a PDF version (with table of contents) of the perl script that is a wrapper around partclone (and a few other tools).

ewemoa:
1.0.2 seems to have been released a bit back:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.0.2 (2012-01-03)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Updated to latest partclone stable binaries
* Shorten dropdown menus with an ellipsis after certain character limit
* Ubuntu Maverick repos for updates and backports added; base upgraded
* Chromium browser launched with user data dir specified (to run as root)
* Show time elapsed when backup/restore operations are completed
* Added boot-repair tool for correcting any boot issues after restore
* Added wget utility for easily downloading files from the command line
* Show free space on destination drive while saving a backup
* Warn if less than 1GB free on backup destination drive
* Show an error if any of the partitions to restore do not exist
* Allow spaces in network shared folders

--- End quote ---

from:

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/redobackup/files/

Unfortunately, haven't gotten it to boot successfully here yet :(

Update: Seems ok -- problem appeared to be resolved after plugging USB optical drive into a different USB port.

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