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

[Peter C. Norton]

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 06:47:34AM -0700, Carlos Alfaro wrote:
> 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?

Be aware that at least some versions of windows will barf if certian
magic numbers are the same on multiple systems on the network.  I
don't know the details, but ghost deals with this - *nix tools do not.
If you're going to clone systems using unix and windows, keep that in
mind.

If you're working with multiple systems, take a look at systemimager
(http://www.systemimager.org/).

-Peter

-- 
The 5 year plan:
In five years we'll make up another plan.
Or just re-use this one.