On 6 Oct 2010 at 10:58, Maxime Alarie wrote:
Subject: rsync or dd to clone a hard drive?
Date sent: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 10:58:50 -0400
From: "Maxime Alarie" <mala...@processia.com>
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> I have never used dd to clone a hard disk.
>
> I use rsync for a lot of my backups , and I was wondering what would be
> the best tool to
> clone a disk. I don’t want 3rd party software also. I want built in
> command line tools.
>
> I know rsync will resync where it left off if I encounter a problem, what
> about dd? Do I
> absolutely have to creat an image before cloning? Ex: dd if=/dev/sda
> of=sda.img or I
> can use dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb?
>
I'm the maintainer of the g4l project that is a disk imaging program. It is
usually used to boot a machine from the cd with a ramdisk, and then can
make local or network images using dd and compress. Note: this is a full disk
or full partition images. Not a file or directory level image.
It also has an option to clone, which is a similar process to you dd option
going from one disk to another.
ftp://amd64gcc.dyndns.org/g4l-v0.35alpha19.iso
ftp://amd64gcc.dyndns.org/g4l-v0.35a19.devel.tar.gz
or released version on sourceforge.
> Thanks.
>
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