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Posted: Nov. 29 2007,21:18 QUOTE
Knoppix is a regular for windows rescue, but the compactness and speed of DSL is attractive.

For basic rescue / backup of files from a windows system, can DSL be used instead ? An important issue is not to put the files at risk, but will mounting the windows partition put the files at risk of corruption?

Are there any good links to pages / topics focusing on using DSL for rescue purposes ?

Thanks.
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Posted: Nov. 30 2007,08:18 QUOTE
For all my partitions backups of my computers (laptop, desktop, from my wife, from my two childrens) I make it with a DSL CD with partimage and qparted as extensions in mydsl into the CD, and make this backups into a USB-HDD from 400Gb.
Sometimes I have made a restoration from someone and goes perfectly.
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Posted: Nov. 30 2007,16:42 QUOTE
If the Win partitions are in NTFS, DSL cannot write to it, which means it cannot cause corruption either.
Reading has no trouble, so file rescue should work great..

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Posted: Nov. 30 2007,16:43 QUOTE
And with fat32 you can always mount it readonly (mount -o ro)

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Posted: Dec. 01 2007,11:34 QUOTE
OK, Thanks.
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