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

[Mark Halegua]

According to the article you can use PI to create a partition and disk image 
so you could make all like machines have the same configuration and 
installation.

You might be better serverd to get the magazine and read it for yourself.

Mark


On Thursday 01 May 2003 09:47, 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?
>
> --- 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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