On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 21:39 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
How is it easier ? dump | restore is as straightfoward as it gets. I have been using it for 15+ years, and never had a problem (except for raiserfs filesystems, of course).
Rodrigo is correct. UNIX filesystem "dumps" do what Ghost, Drive Copy/Image, etc... do for NT filesystems. Microsoft does _not_ offer an equivalent, let alone the nasty SAM-SID non-sense, hence their existence.
Otherwise, I also use the archive/unarchive method either via 'find|cpio -p' or 'tar c|tar x'. That will work with ReiserFS too, let alone just about any UNIX flavor
Yes, if I were going to produce a lot of copies of the same disk, then I would look for something like Ghost (or G4U, will check it later tonight). But for this particular task ?
There are broadcast/multicast tools for UNIX as well.