Re: Ghost-like software

[Mike Connor <mikec@silug.org>]

The "dd" command is my favorite for that, even for drives with M$ on them.
I kicked out 125 identical drives once using that command in script on a 
box full of scsi controllers.

To write a drive off to a file:
"dd if=/dev/hda of=destination_file"

To back up a drive to an identical one or larger:
"dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb"

Back up your boot sector:
"dd if=/dev/hda of=~/boot_sector bs=512 count=1"

Note that "dd" is often called "disk destroyer"; be careful what you write 
to because you'll get it.  (Don't get the input/output arguments mixed up)

Enjoy,

Mike



On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 aaron@cronkright.com wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Is there a utility for linux that functions similar to Norton Ghost?  I
> don't need the fancy interface, a command line version will do.
> 
> Norton Ghost is a software package that makes image copies of harddrives.
> 
> Thanks,
> Aaron Cronkright
> 
> 
> 
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