To backup/restore drive partitions, I use grml for the livecd, which has software speech via espeakup as Kirk already indicated. To do the actual backup/restore of partitions, I use partition image. Doing: man partimage will tell you what you need to know. If you're dealing with ntfs partitions, there is also ntfsclone from the ntfsprogs package, which is installed on the grml cd. I can tell you from personal experience that ntfsclone works nicely if you're trying to recover data from a damaged drive. On the other hand, partimage bombs as soon as it encounters the first i/o error while reading the partition in question. If I want to backup/restore the partition table, I use sfdisk, which grml includes also. Hope that answers your questions somewhat. Greg On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 01:13:51PM -0400, Jayson Smith wrote: > A bit off-topic here, but somewhat related to Linux. > > For several years, I've been using Image for Windows/Linux as my > Windows backup/restore solution. I liked it because, in case of > total boot drive failure where the system was completely unbootable, > I could boot up Image for Linux which includes Speakup, use my > DECtalk Express, and restore. Now, though, I've upgraded to Windows > 7, and my computer has exactly zero serial ports. So I can't use my > old boot CD any more, unless it would work with a USB to serial > convertor. > > What do you recommend for a bootable, accessible backup and restore > solution? Does whatever you recommend use software speech? I don't > assume anyone's come up with an accessible bootable Windows CD? Does > such a bootable CD work with USB sound devices? Also, in all our > computers, there's an internal sound card we're not actively using > in Windows. Would any Linux CD try to use that first? > Thanks for any thoughts! > Jayson > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org
