[Techtalk] Partitioning hard drives

[Rudy Zijlstra]

Conor Daly wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 02:26:29PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
> Indefatigable42 thought:
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>> My question is, can an external hard drive be partitioned like the internal
>> one, so that the Windows and Linux backups both have partitions that match
>> their own file structure? Or should I have two separate small external
>> drives, one for Linux and one for Windows?
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> This is possible to do but is really only of benefit if you want to do the
> backup of each OS _from_ that OS.  OTOH, if your winXP partitions are
> readable from linux, you could just backup the whole lot from linux.  This
> does have the drawback that you will lose the NTFS file details unless you
> store on an NTFS partition.
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> Conor
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I think rdiff-backup has this solved and will store file details as 
well. For more information on rdiff-backup see 
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/

I am using this in a daily automated setup and quit happy with it.

Cheers,

Rudy