Back up current partition structure before writing?

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tg6tg6tg6
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Back up current partition structure before writing?

#1 Post by tg6tg6tg6 »

Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but is there a way to back up the current (likely-flawed) partition structure before >Write - ing the "new" partition structure? Or is such a thing totally not needed?

I'm just a fan of trying to provide a return to "original state" whenever possible, so just in case the recovery goes wrong, there's a "known reference point" to revert back to.

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Re: Back up current partition structure before writing?

#2 Post by cgrenier »

After Analyse, you can "Backup" to save the list of the partitions to a file. It's not a backup of the content of the sectors.
Keeping the testdisk.log file is also a good idea.
A true backup can be done using dd, but it's only for advanced users as you can lost data with a wrong command...

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