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I am supposing this will not work - simply using dd to copy the booted disk /dev/sda for example to a file on an external hard drive. This would not be a good back as too many system file would be missed. right?

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 0 points 9 months ago

Yeah, didn't have any problems. But maybe I just got lucky.

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