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Ccrypt will recursively encrypt folder contents.

I believe snapshot was developed from Refracta. The link is below and these tools should work on a Debian install.

http://www.ibiblio.org/refracta/downloads.html

@ Richard, there is a Debian package that will do all the hard work for you, it's:- "grub-imageboot". I've used it in the past for Clonezilla from grub but not recently. Doubt that persistence would work though.

I'm posting again on this topic after a long period of time. I've always been very wary of dd'ing a running system, since the image taken is at the block level and not the file level and so file errors can occur if the disk is written to. Just when you think your linux wisdom is pretty good you can ...

Code:- tune2fs -l /dev/sda1

Is also very informative.

@Jerry3904 - That's a neat trick, thank you.

Voted yes, my issue is with an OKI MFP - it will not work on a 64 bit install.

Nice tip, thank you, works perfectly.

Nicely explained, but not sure about using dd on a running system. It will work, but could easily create a corrupt image if anything is written to disk during the operation, as you have illustrated. I use fsarchiver as a daily cron job on a running system. This creates a reliable file system archive ...

Slightly off topic, but I remember those Saline days. It was a very good system.

Nowadays I always install two systems per hard drive. One to use daily and one to use for repair. Daily I'm using MX with Manjaro as second choice.