OT: Clonezilla-live works

[Karl Larsen]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Chris Rees wrote:
>   
>>>    I got the safe version of clonezilla version 1.0.10-8 and it works
>>> just fine. Easy to put on a CD and it comes up looking like Ubuntu. But
>>> it has special things it can do. For example if you want to make an
>>> EXACT copy of your present Ubuntu or Windows or MAC on another hard
>>> drive it will do it. It makes it's own partition and uses your current
>>> file system. A lot like the dd command.
>>>       
>> Or, you could do it the proper way using dump/restore. Seriously,
>> that's far safer than using dd / complicated coning software.
>>     
>
> You should try clonezilla before commenting on its complexity. The only 
> advantage of dump/restore is that it can move to a smaller partition, 
> but you have to do your own partition/filesystem setup and make the disk 
> bootable.
>
>   
>> Or is that too UNIX-like for people? I've spent some time working with
>> FreeBSD; the simple approach is always recommended here :P
>>     
>
> Clonezilla is just a menu-driven scripted wrapper around standard unix 
> tools but it uses partition copies that know enough to only copy the 
> used portions when possible (ntfs and most linux filesystems) so it is 
> faster than dd, and it can connect to storage for the images over the 
> network via nfs, samba, or ssh with menu choices as well.
>
>   
    Since I have not tried a use via ssh I can't say if that works. And 
for that point I do not have a windows I want to copy either. But might 
try a copy of my laptop windows to my hard drive. Should work.

Karl


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