[kde-linux] Backing up your Linux PC

[Werner Joss]

> Does anybody know whether this solution (konserve) is also suitable for
> disk cloning? I am looking at replacing my existing main hard drive with
> the inevitable bigger one and need to clone everything on the existing
> one  (linux and windows partitions) to the new one. Or are there other
> tools which do this type of job?

cloning discs incl. boot-sector/MBR, as well as NTFS partitions is quite
another job. konserve won't do this, IMO.
I'm even unsure, if dd (which is suitable for raw copies) will be able to
make a working copy of NTFS partitions. you may want to google around abit
for this.

werner