to clone or not to clone that is the question

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Sat Jul 31 18:41:37 UTC 2004


Am Sa, den 31.07.2004 schrieb Dexter Ang um 20:25:

> Clone or backup to a DVD? I've just cloned 20 harddrives using g4u 
> (Ghost 4 Unix) this past few days. Dumped the entire harddrive data to 
> an internal ftp server. Then restored the image to all 20 harddrives. Of 
> course, you need a separate computer with g4u.

Just because of interest: what does g4u do different than dd?

> Just wondering... is Ghost able to dump an image of the harddrive 
> straight onto a DVD?

mkisofs if you want to save mountable system content on a CD / DVD,
rather than doing a dd clone copy independent from what's on the source
media.

> dex

Alexander


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