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Some snippets to backup a partition and restore it later or mount it as a loopback device
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backup_partition_and_restore.sh
dd if=/dev/sda6 conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | pigz -c -9 | split -a3 -b2G - /media/ubuntu/b38e1e94-e09a-4f58-b252-33d65186277e/backup_sda6.img.gz
cat /media/ubuntu/b38e1e94-e09a-4f58-b252-33d65186277e/backup_sda6.img.gz* | pigz -d -c | dd of=/dev/sdXXXXXXX
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/media/ubuntu/Data/backup_sda1.img
mkdir /mnt/test
mount -o loop,ro /media/ubuntu/Data/backup_sda1.img /mnt/test
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