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Ghosting utilities for Fedora?

  • 16-09-2004 1:52pm
    #1
    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭


    A search of Google didn't dig up much...I need to ghost a system restore partition from a laptop at the weekend and copy it to another laptop. Is there any utility that comes reccommended? :D


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  • #2
    pixelbeat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 ✭pixelbeat


    if hda3 is your partition for example:

    dd bs=1M if=/dev/hda3 | gzip | ssh user@remote 'dd of=hda3.gz'

    Note partimage may be more userfriendly, as it will auto
    skip unused blocks and will give you a progress bar.

    you may want to do a file level copy rather than the complete filesystem
    (for e.g. if you wanted to copy files to a different sized partition,
    or a different filesystem type). tar is probably best for this:

    ( cd /mnt/hda3/ && tar c . ) | gzip | ssh user@remote 'dd of=hda3.tar.gz'


  • #3
    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    Just a copy of the files so I can burn to DVD. It comes to about 4gb.


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