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

[Carlos Alfaro]

Would PI or dd allow me to make a disk image so I can
use it to copy it to a new machine or restore a
current configuration to my machine if I ruined it
-say experimenting a bit.

Of are there other tools (similar to norton ghost)
that would allow me to replicate my machine to
identical hardware or just restore my own machine?

--- Mark Halegua <phantom21 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 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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