Somewhat OT: cloning hard disks

[Janina Sajka]

I'm still a fan of dd for such tasks.

You mention speed, but I wonder why that should be an issue. Even if dd
is slow, are you actually doing so many disks over so many days, weeks,
and months that it really matters? Or, maybe you're worried about tyeing
up your only workstation? In wich case I'd just do it overnight.

Janina

Alex Snow writes:
> Hi,
> Was just given the task of cloning several machines from a master that I 
> installed.  THe master has both Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04 installed.  
> What's the best way to make an image of this drive so it can be copied 
> to several other drives? I was thinking of just using DD, but is there 
> any faster way? partimage looked interesting, but it looked like a pain 
> to clone an entire disk (doing it one partition at a time, then losing 
> the MBR from the original drive).
> Also looked at clonezilla which looked somewhat promising (it uses a 
> console interface so could have speakup integrated into it), but I was 
> unable to find any source (or even a copy of the kernel config so I 
> could recompile)
> Any advice would be greatly apreciated.
> 
> -- 
> lp1 on fire
> 	-- One of the more obfuscated kernel messages
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