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Is there a way to clone an NTFS hard drive but leave some files out?

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Mar 15, 20264784 views
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I'm trying to find a nice way to do backups of my Windows 7 Media Center machine. Ideally I'd like to take periodic snapshots of the entire hard disk, but leave some files out of the selection. For example, take an image of the whole hard disk, but leave out all of the TV recordings (not the end of…

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Here is a way to do it using open source tools, e.g. using the Ubuntu live cd or live usb. You need the terminal and superuser access ( ). Suppose you want to clone the first partition on the first drive. This is known under linux as . First, create…

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