Without being able to get block level access to the disks by installing software on the host which runs the disks (or getting a low enough level access, maybe NBD?) then I really think you're going to struggle to do it any faster.
Sorry if this doesn't help much, hopefully someone can prove me wrong. Andy On 6 Sep 2008, at 20:04, Phil Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
