[ltp] backing up a laptop

[Kacper Wysocki]

This is slightly related to my previous post on harddrive noise:
I'm thinking of getting a quieter laptop harddrive, and as I'm thinking  
about it I figure I should know how to back up the harddrive and  
restore my data onto the new harddrive.

I was thinking of doing this by mounting a NFS partition and using dd  
to make a disk image of the drive, then find a linux-on-a-floppy distro  
that supports my pcmcia network card and nfs, and dd the file back onto  
the harddrive. I see two problems with this:
firstly, the partition information might get screwy. I'd just copy the  
partition, not the whole drive, but I'd have to do some funky stuff  
resizing the partition to use the rest of the (potentially larger)  
drive.
secondly, fiding a linux-floppy that supports pcmcia and nfs might be  
challenging.

Maybe tar would be a better idea instead of dd, but do any of you have  
better ideas? I'd appreciate suggestions for how to do this backup- 
restore.

Cheers,
	Kacper