Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> What if the HD breaks, and you can only now buy a larger one than you had 
> when you made the image backup?  You're SOL.

  At least on the unix side "cp -ax" is useful to create an exact mirror
of the *contents* (ie. at the file level, rather than the raw sector level)
of a disk, to be restored later, or transferred to another disk (even if
that another disk has a different size).

  Of course being just a copy of the files means that it won't restore
any partition info, etc. but at least you don't have to worry about the
disk changing size.

  I don't know how well this could be used to back up an NTFS partition,
though.

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