[NUGA] Re: Best Imaging Software?

Shane,

We run Fedora Core 3 here at work with a Soft RAID. I need to maintain two
sets of server drives just for redundancy. I use the Drive Duplication (dd)
command in this build to accomplish what I need. There are some catches
however.

The command makes a bit-for-bit copy of the source drive over to the
destination drive. If you have a different (larger) sized destination
drive, then I recommend you build a partition on that driver of the same
size as your Linux source drive and do a dd from to that partition. The
command line I use is:

date; dd if=/dev/[sourcedrive] of=/dev/[destinationdrive] bs=4096; date

dd=drive dupe / if=input file / of=output file / bs=bit size (I think)

Although this method is not the most efficient, it is very reliable for us
and take about 1 hour and 40 minutes for a 200 GB drive. If I do not use
the bs switch, it takes about 4 hours.

Hope this helps.

Sincerely and Respectfully,
 
Bill Thomson
Plexsys Interface Products, Inc.
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Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 17:01
To: nuga@lib.uaa.alaska.edu
Subject: [NUGA] Best Imaging Software?

I have used Symantec's Ghost successfully in my work. However, they command
$70-$100 depending on bundle that you get at places such as Best Buy.

I have a Linux box that I want to image it for backup and try to install
both Windows XP and Linux on it. Before I do this, I would like to create
the image of the box for safekeeping.

What software solution do you suggest besides Ghost?
I appreciate your response.

Thanks,
Shane

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