[nflug] Disk cloning

[eric]

is this a fast (compressed) solution?
I have been playing around with dd and ssh and it seems to take a very
long time to back up compared to ghost ... and I wish that I could make
dd or tar work just like ghost with the speed at which I can clone




David J. Andruczyk wrote:

>Try mondo rescue..
>setup another machine to act as an NFS server..
>make a mondo CD,  boot that,  backup to NFS..
>install new disk
>restore via mondo from nfs share..
>MAKE SURE IT BOOTS
>then grow the FS using either gpartd, or windows disk
>administrator.
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>--- Richard Hubbard <rhubby at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>I _think_ this is straightforward.
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>>Running out of room on my hard drive.  Got a new one, and now I
>>need to clone old over to new.  Difficulties: 1) Running Winders
>>XP / That's how I get the paycheck, sorry, 2) it's a laptop hard
>>drive.
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>>Is Gparted live cd the right tool?  
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>>I tried it the other day, but the cloned version didn't boot. Was
>>I forgetting something?  Was I using the wrong tool?
>>Reeeely don't want to buy ghost for 1 drive cloning.
>> 
>>Richard Hubbard 
>>Technology Solutions Inc
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