I need to clone an HDD from one machine to several, preferably using a network attached storage (NAS) drive.
The NAS drive is a windows / SAMBA share an I can mount that as /mnt/nas1/ The software provided for the task (Acronis TrueImage 10) has the disadvantage of not being able to see the original SATA drive however Ubuntu etc don't have this problem. I have had one run at it using the dd command piped via gzip to put a compressed image on the NAS, this worked but took over two hours via Gig Ethernet. The HDD is 80 GB and the average data transfer was 10 Mbytes/s so it is practically mapping the drive byte for byte. Is there a more elegant / faster method ? I'll try a USB external HDD to see if the data rate is better, but it would be nice to reduce the amount of data being shifted too. There is a lot of free space on the HDD but dd apparently copies everything "blindly". Phil _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
