On 9/5/19 3:44 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
However, the other suggestion to pipe straight through gzip (or other compression program) is better anyway.
Thank you!
Backup:
1) shutdown: zero out unused space
Figure out which partitions / and /boot are loated on. Gparted works well for this..l Usually they are /dev/sdb3 and /dev/sdb4:
partitions must not be mounted
# zerofree -v /dev/sd.. # zerofree -v /dev/sd..
2) shutdown: make a dd and gzip
Find the device name (/dev/sdx)
Note: if the "dd" crashes on a USB3 port, try a USB2 port status=progress cuts your size in half.
# dd status=progress bs=4096 if=/dev/sdx | gzip -v > DeadStick.FC30.$(date +%Y-%m-%d)