Re: [sheflug] hdd cloning

[(Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03-Jul-06 Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 15:41 +0100, Nigel Horne wrote:
>> David Willington wrote:
>> > Can anyone recommend any hdd cloning software? It's not something
>> > I've
>> > done before but have been asked if I can recommend something. I'm
>> > having
>> > a look at Ghost for Linux (http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4l/) at
>> > the
>> > moment
>> 
>> dd(1)
> 
> dd doesn't really provide any of the features of Ghost; it just copies
> (parts of) files.

Whatever the merits of other suggestions, I don't think this
does justice to 'dd'. For example,

  dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

(with possible tweaks as per 'man dd') will do a byte-for-byte
copy of the one HD to the other HD.

> http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page is very good for munging around with
> disk images. 
> 
> http://www.mondorescue.org/ is without parallel in the W32 world, IMO,
> and would be the best bet in this situation for my money.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex.
> 
> 
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