On Thursday 13 May 2010 11:56:02 Harsh Busa wrote: > Hi group ! > > I have a bunch of computers Linux, Windows , Solaris etc. > > Are there any lightweight cd bootable distros which can clone the > image of the HDD on an external storage and then I can clone it > back later or on a different machine with same hardware ?
cat /dev/sda >tmp/clonedisk tar -jcvf /tmp/clonedisk /bkp/clonedisk.bz2 This will give you an exact clone, bootloader,fs, secret sauce badsectors etc. restore tar -zcvf /bkp/clonedisk.bz2 cat /bkp/clonedisk >/dev/sda Caveat Emptor: disk sizes have to be the same -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
