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Can I - using isodumper to create USB mem with LIVE version of my current, configured system? Or is it toll only for creating USB installation/LIVE copy of iso file taken from repo?

isodumper is what the name says, it's meant to write images to removable media, mostly flash drives.
If you need an image of your current system only thing that comes to mind is to use something like redobackup or mondo/mindi.

OK, but if I want to backup all my system HDD, "on the fly", without booting from specially prepared CD or USB mem. And backup Windows partition too.
At this moment I use:

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dd if=/dev/sda bs=10M conv=notrunc | gzip -c > /mnt/RSYNC/piotr.iso.gz

to have full image of HDD (including WIN) and restore in case of disaster using Knopix for example.
It is done from cron during night.
Please advice, is the simplest way to do it?

mackowiakp wrote:Please advice, is the simplest way to do it?

Won't comment on that part, but as mentioned previously in another thread, as long as you don't add at least a checksum on sda and compare that with the checksum of the image that way of backing up is pretty much useless, as you have no way of knowing whether the backup is complete and okay.

But this doesn't have anything to do with the original question about isodumper ...

OK. THX. So we can close a topic