[KLUG Members] Harddrive Imaging

[Bruce Smith]

> > > Does anyone know of any open source harddisk imaging software.
> > What kind of filesystems do you wish to "image".
> > 
> > If you want to copy Linux partitions, it can be done with the 
> > standard tools that come with any distribution.
> 
>    Simple enough:
> 
>     dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

Works great for hard drives, but if the hard drives are of a different
size, you're going to have problems.  Also not a good idea to do on a 
(RW) partition of a running system.


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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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