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  1. The most complete backup of /dev/sdX with dd, tar, gz, xz

    Sep 19, 2022 · What is the most complete way to backup/restore entire /dev/sdX (to/from a file) including device partition table and partition flags, all possible metadata, owners, file …

  2. Newest 'xz' Questions - Super User

    Apr 3, 2024 · The most complete backup of /dev/sdX with dd, tar, gz, xz What is the most complete way to backup/restore entire /dev/sdX (to/from a file) including device partition table …

  3. Between xz, gzip, and bzip2, which compression algorithim is the …

    Between xz, gzip, and bzip2, which compression algorithm gives the smallest file size and fastest speed when compressing fairly large tarballs?

  4. Getting Rufus to output to a disk image file - Super User

    Oct 4, 2019 · Solution 1: Read the image from a prepared flash drive. Win32DiskImager can be used to do this. Solution 2: Prepare your own hybrid ISO. Most of modern Linux distros use so …

  5. What is the advantage of using 'tar' today? - Super User

    Mar 16, 2013 · Tar was created for doing backup full-fidelity backups of your filesystem, not just for transferring files around. As such, the tar utility is the most complete utility for creating an …

  6. linux - Why does attempting to extract a tar.gz file returns, “This ...

    I have a tar.gz file and I want to extract it using terminal. I used following commands: tar tvzf ldtp_3.5.0.orig.tar.gz and tar -xvzf ldtp_3.5.0.orig.tar.gz. However, I get the same result for bot...

  7. tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

    I was having the same issue and none of the above answers worked for me. However, I found that running the following command worked: tar -cpzf /backups/fullbackup.tar.gz - …

  8. backup - Why is piping 'dd' through gzip so much faster than a …

    May 30, 2014 · 512 bytes was the standard block size for file storage in early Unix. Since everything is a file in Unix/Linux, it became the default for just about everything. Newer …

  9. tar: cannot open: no such file or directory - Super User

    I am trying to follow the instructions here to install Jetty on ubuntu but I am running into a problem when I try to use tar. cd /usr/local/src sudo wget http ...

  10. Incremental backups with tar where current file has most recent …

    Nov 17, 2018 · The end result is a backup-0 file that has the first full back-up and then backup-1, backup-2, ..., backup-x with the changes in order of the backups. In the past I have used rsync …