[ale] Disk Drive Legerdemain

[Jeff Hubbs]

Christopher -

This seems like it's in the ballpark and may be more sane to use than 
dd. The only thing is, I'm not really interested in compressed image 
files of partitions except perhaps as an interim step.

Would one still use dd to replicate the bootloader?

- Jeff

Christopher Bergeron wrote:

>Jeff, I just recently posted a very similar question, but I didn't get a
>reply... However, through my research I found this:
>
>http://www.partimage.org/
>
>It's an openNortonGhost.  From what I've seen so far, it's very complete,
>it's really easy to use, and has a lot of potential.
>
>I'm not sure just yet if you can script everything, but I'm assuming you
>can.  Anyway, hopefully this will help ya a little bit...
>
>-CB
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jeff Hubbs [mailto:hbbs at attbi.com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 3:37 PM
>>To: ale at ale.org
>>Subject: [ale] Disk Drive Legerdemain
>>
>>
>>I want to get really good at replicating disk drives.
>>
>>My objective is to be able to take a given disk drive (not part of a
>>RAID set or anything like that), hook up a second drive of arbitrary
>>capacity (as long as there is enough room for all partition contents),
>>and turn the second drive into a working duplicate of the first drive.
>>
>>I will want to retain any bootloader in the transition, to include LILO,
>>NT/2K's loader, what have you.  The partition table may be different, if
>>only out of necessity due to the drives being different sizes and
>>geometries.
>>
>>Keeping in mind that I want to be able to go from basically any drive to
>>any other drive, how should I proceed?  I am sure that dd would figure
>>into this, especially with respect to the bootloader issue.  However,
>>what I'm unclear on is how to copy partition contents when the
>>partitions are unequal on unequal drives.  I know you can really mess up
>>a drive this way.
>>
>>It occurs to me that if I start with a drive with NTFS partitions, I
>>can't just mount source and target partitions and either rsync or cp
>>between them.  How could I use dd in such a case?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>- Jeff
>>
>>
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