Now I need help in creating a disk image of the USB stick

[BirdDad]

I finally got my Ubuntu Usb stick the way I want it, how do I back it up? I tried Clonezilla
but it doesn't see the stick. Is there another program I could use? I have the stick perfect and want to be able to fall back on a backup if I need to.
Thank you

 

[KillerBee]

using truecrack on Kali I don't know how to combine a dictionary attack with an alphabet attack.
Example : I know that the first two words are spandexsorry but I don't know what three letters or symbols come after that and after those three letters are RogeringG00d.
How do I make it crack this, I don't understand. Every file I have read assumes one or the other but not both.
Thank you

You're Welcome 😛

 

[MrColin]

Write a script that outputs each possible password (hint: 3 nested loops). Get the src for truecrack, and make it work with your script as the dictionary. Compile and run it.

You're welcome!

 

[BirdDad]

how do I install grub to it once I have all my favorite programs on it? And be able to boot it from any PC? Not a "live CD" image but one that is updated.

 

[MrColin]

usually its just like installing to an HDD, just different. Be careful during the installation that you don't write grub to your hdd, you might unplug your hdd while installing to avoid loss. Set the bios to boot the thumb drive first, that way if you unplug it your original bootloader is good to go. While in the new system you can update grub to include all the OS's you have installed.

 

[BirdDad]

Is there another backup program that I can use(one that actually recognizes the USB stick as a source drive)?

 

[TheELF]

You can just use dd from any running linux distro(obviously avoid doing it from the distro that is on the stick) to take an image from the stick to a file.
(and back again)

 

[BirdDad]

I thought that Clonezilla did use dd. If it does it is not seeing my stick. It mounts ok but cannot be selected as source.

 

[Red Squirrel]

For something small like a USB stick, you could just use dd.

dd if=/dev/sdb of=/path/to/backup/file.bin

where sdb is the USB stick. The file will be the size of the capacity of the disk though so I would not do this for a full blown hard drive but will be fine for a small USB stick. There is also Clonezilla which is probably better suited, I imagine it will compress the image file to a size that corresponds to what is actually used, and not the full size of the disk. At least I assume so, been a long time since I used it.

 

[BirdDad]

Thanks for the help you guys. I was mounting the partition I was trying to use as source-that's why it wasn't showing up. I feel kind of foolish about it.