chdmon offset... help backing up my HD

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I have a hard drive thats 20gb and the partition on it is only 4gb... chdmon wants to back up the whole 20gb (includes the free space). I only want the 4gb partition backed up.

Is there a way i can use an option to offset the (cyl / hd / sec) so i can copy only whats needed ?

Any example appreciated...
 
Not that I am aware of. It does an image of the entire drive being backed up - my experience with it FWIW.
 
I read somewhere (maybe here) you can back up the data area only on chdman... I don't recall where :(

Sorry,
Kevin
 
norton

Norton Ghost..
Can do backups of all sorts of different configurations.

I have a hard drive thats 20gb and the partition on it is only 4gb... chdmon wants to back up the whole 20gb (includes the free space). I only want the 4gb partition backed up.

Is there a way i can use an option to offset the (cyl / hd / sec) so i can copy only whats needed ?

Any example appreciated...
 
Yup, trouble with NG is that it SUCKS !

Seriously though, all Symantec products are so damn bloated... I can feel my computer slow down at the thought of even trying to install it ;-p
 
Yup, trouble with NG is that it SUCKS !

Seriously though, all Symantec products are so damn bloated... I can feel my computer slow down at the thought of even trying to install it ;-p


Thats why computer makers love norton, they make people buy faster computers, more ram and larger hard drives just to handle their bloatware

BootitNG is awesome for partition management and hard drive backup/restore.

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-next-generation.htm
 
There's a command line version of Ghost - no bloat what so ever. You don't need Ghost anyway. CHDMAN will do everything a person needs.

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=86642&highlight=chdman

You're thinking physical size. There's a physical drive size (in your case 20gig) but in reality you need to focus on the logical size. Run:
chdman -info
Note the LOGICAL most likely won't match what windows reports as being free. CHDMAN will DUMP the LOGICAL size not physical.
 
The trouble is that the Logical volume is being reported as 20gb but there are 2 partitions on the drive that are 2gb each (total 4gb). CHDMAN seems to want to copy the whole thing, all 20gb.

I know the physical geometry (c/h/s) of the second partition and want to stop copying at the end of the second partition. I'm just unclear as to the syntax of CHDMAN.

Threw trial and error i 'think' i need to dump the entire contents of the drive as RAW format and then create a chd file from that using an offset parameter.

Any advice is appreciated...
 
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