13 May
2010
13 May
'10
6:59 a.m.
On Thursday 13 May 2010 11:56:02 Harsh Busa wrote:
Hi group !
I have a bunch of computers Linux, Windows , Solaris etc.
Are there any lightweight cd bootable distros which can clone the image of the HDD on an external storage and then I can clone it back later or on a different machine with same hardware ?
cat /dev/sda >tmp/clonedisk tar -jcvf /tmp/clonedisk /bkp/clonedisk.bz2
This will give you an exact clone, bootloader,fs, secret sauce badsectors etc.
restore tar -zcvf /bkp/clonedisk.bz2 cat /bkp/clonedisk >/dev/sda
Caveat Emptor: disk sizes have to be the same
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Rgds
JTD