[nflug] Disk cloning

[eric]

ahhh thanks, will try

Mark Musone wrote:

>More likely than not, you are simply using the wrong block size with dd (or
>you don't have dma enabled)
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>Mark
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>From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
>eric
>Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 9:01 AM
>To: nflug at nflug.org
>Subject: Re: [nflug] Disk cloning
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>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
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>David J. Andruczyk wrote:
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>>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.
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>Is Gparted live cd the right tool?  
>>>
>>>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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