From: dan@djph.net   
      
   On 2023-11-02, Dan Purgert wrote:   
   > On 2023-11-02, bilsch01 wrote:   
   >> Hello, I was never very good at linux scripting, and now I've forgotten   
   >> much what I did know. I hope somebody here can help me incorporate gzip   
   >> with the dd copy lines I use for backing up laptop to an external drive.   
   >> The two different thumb drives I use to boot laptop and copy SDD are   
   >> 1) Ubuntu Installer and 2) Knoppix.  Both of those come with gzip.   
   >> I've never actually ever used gzip.   
   >>   
   >> Here's the lines I use to copy the SDD contents to an external drive:   
   >>   
   >> ## first do fdisk -l to sort out the devices   
   >> sudo mkdir -p /mnt/sdb1  (creating a mount point)   
   >> sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1   
   >> sudo mkdir -p /mnt/sdb1/images (if u don't already have that directory)   
   >> sudo dd if=/dev/nvme0n1 of=/mnt/sdb1/images/asyymmdd.img bs=4096   
   >> conv=notrunc,noerror   
   >   
   > You'd need something to the effect of:   
   >   dd if=/the/device (NO if=) [...] | gzip > /mnt/sdb1/images/xx.img.gz   
                          ^^^^^ Ugh, that should be "NO of="   
      
      
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