[nylug-talk] Disk imaging/cloning - sorry if someone asked this already

[Mark Halegua]

The March issue of Linux Format (it has Judge Dredd on the cover and is still 
available at some Barnes & Nobels stores - I saw it at the store in the 
Citicorp building) has an excellent article on backing up disks and 
partitiond using PI, and even a small section on using dd.

The benefit of PI is it will only copy the actual data on a partition, 
whrereas dd will copy the whole partition, unused space and all, and doesn't 
compress any of it.

Mark

On Thursday 01 May 2003 09:11, Carlos Alfaro wrote:
> I have been doing some research on disk
> imaging/cloning.  I have found partimage.org, backuppc
> (@sourceforge) and g4u.  I think I had read somewhere
> that g4u was a tool that actually looks at the disk
> sectors and copies that.  I was wondering if anyone
> has had experience with tools which will image/clone a
> disk even if its a dual boot system, say win2k or XP
> and redhat or mandrake.
>
> I searched the archives here and google but I rather
> get the opinion of someone with experience using the
> software.
>
> Thanks in advanced.
>
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