Orchid XP v8 wrote:
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> In fairness, Ghost does much, much more than dd does. In particular, 
> Ghost comprehends NTFS, so you can do things like restore to a partition 
> of a different size, backup only the "used" sectors, etc. It also has 
> the ability to backup and restore over the network using compression and 
> so forth.

knoppix@Knoppix:~$ konqueror man:dd man:ssh man:gzip &
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ sudo su -
root@Knoppix:~# dd if=/dev/sda bs=1k conv=sync,noerror | gzip -c | ssh 
-c blowfish andrew@linuxbox "dd of=sda.img.gz bs=1k"

Also see:
http://wiki.egee-see.org/index.php/SEE-GRID_Guide_on_WN_replication

> And you can browse and modify the backup image on the server 
> without having to restore it first.

andrew@linuxbox ~ $ gunzip sda.img.gz
andrew@linuxbox ~ $ /sbin/sfdisk -l -uS sda.img
andrew@linuxbox ~ $ konqueror man:mount

(Look for loop and offset)

Also see:
http://www.andremiller.net/content/mounting-hard-disk-image-including-partitions-using-linux

> And...

knoppix@Knoppix:~$ konqueror man:man man:info &

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