NTFS Clone Imaging

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In this setup I am going to use:

192.168.1.2 for my nfs server, please adjust to yours
Different hard drives in size, source and destination is not same of size hard drive
/dev/sda is my hard drive and /dev/sda1 be my partition
Resize/shrink the hard drive

ntfresize /dev/sda1 -i | grep "You might resize" | cut -d " " -f8

This will give you the size of used disk in MB. Now just to safe run the read only resize test, replace xxx with number you got in previous command

ntfresize /dev/sda1 -n -s xxxM

If everything ok then run do the actual resizing

ntfresize /dev/sda1 -f -v -P -s xxxM

mkdir ntfs

Mount windows to ntfs directory

ntfs-3g -o force,rw /dev/sda1 /ntfs

Remove page and hiberfile if exists

rm -fr /ntfs/{pagefile.sys,hiberfil.sys}

Unmount windows drive [/dev/sda1]

umount /ntfs

Mount remote nfs share to ntfs directory

mount -o nolock,proto=tcp xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/nfsshare /ntfs

Backup MBR

dd if=/dev/sda of=/ntfs/sda.mbr bs=512 count=1
dd if=/dev/sda of=/ntfs/sda.vbr bs=512 count=63

Capture image, compress it using gzip and send it to nfsshare

ntfsclone -s -f -o - /dev/sda1 | gzip -c | cat > /ntfs/imagename.gz

Restore image from nfsshare

mkdir ntfs

Mount nfs share

mount -o nolock,proto=tcp xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/nfsshare /ntfs

cat /ntfs/imagename.gz | gunzip -c | ntfsclone -r -O /dev/sda1 -

Restore MBR, if device is same or larger

dd if=/ntfs/sda.mbr of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1

Restore MBR, if device is different in size ( this setup assume that )

dd if=/ntfs/sda.mbr of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1

Resize the hard drive to its original size, if you skip this your hard drive will show the size of disk from where the image was captured

ntfsresize /dev/sda1 -x -f -b -P

References:

spiceworks.com
cyberciti.biz
edoceo.com
ebalaskas.gr
nilbus.com
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