Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> Is there some way, (with dd I might guess) to do a hardare level copy?
>>>
>>
>> I've seen many posts on this list that recommend Clonezilla for this
>> sort of thing. You run off CD and it is said to be faster than DD
>> because it is hardware aware (forgive the alliteration) and so only
>> copies actual data.
>>
>
> Now this sounds of real interest. Off to google Clonezilla. Thanks.
>
Clonezilla-live is the one you want. It is a bootable iso and if you
have a place on the network to hold the image you won't have to get the
drives connected to the same machine.
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Les Mikesell
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