Ben Ruset wrote:
Tar is taking files out of a compressed (well, if it's gzipped)
archive and recreating them on your system.
:)
Imaging is doing a sector by sector copy, archival, compression, and
sector by sector restore on another machine.
Not necessarily. Ghost under Fat32/NTFS does not do sector copy, it
does file copy, and recreation.
Now, if you were dd'ing disks, I'd say you were imaging.
DD works well for forensics work, dd-rescure is better.
BTW, we do tar restores of our Linux boxen here. :)
Harry
