[COLUG] Live CD for backups

[Jim]

Kevin Reilly wrote:

> ... there hard drives(Windows). 

> My goggling ... 

> I was thinking a good solution would be to do 
> a straight dd off a booted CD to a USB attached hard drive. 

You can backup a booted CD, such as Knoppix, 
to a USB attached hard drive, with dd. 
Subject/object confusion? Clean up your writing. 

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