On Wed October 6 2010, JB wrote:
> Maxime Alarie <malarie <at> processia.com> writes:
> > 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?
> >
Neither. ;-) Use G4L or similar. It's free, it's bootable and it does
network ->Disk, Disk->Disk or Disk ->Network. :-)
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