Re: [Nolug] Cloning hard drives

Craig Jackson <craig.jackson@wild.net> writes:

>
> 1) Buy Drive Image Pro or Ghost and work through that.
> 2) Do a minimal install which takes a few minutes, then copy the rest
> of the files using cp.

actually, tar is a better tool for this:

tar cf . | (cd /wherever/the/other/disk/is/mounted && tar pxf -)

Mount old disk and new disk from a rescue CD, cd into the root of your
source disk, make your copy using tar command above, edit critical /etc
files (hosts, hostname, etc) and then move to the next one.

> 3) Try http://www.partimage.org/

This is another way to go in. Gentoo installation CDs and knoppix
have partimage on them so they could be used to boot the system and
image one disk over to another.

-- 
Scott Harney<scotth@scottharney.com>
"...and one script to rule them all."
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