-----Original Message----- ++From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf ++Of Anuerin Diaz ++Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 5:55 PM ++To: The Main Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Discussion List ++Subject: Re: [plug] Cloning linux ++ ++On 9/14/05, Jolly Recto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ++> On 9/14/05, Kenneth Oncinian ++> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ++> > i use mondorescue. ++> > http://www.mondorescue.org/ ++> > ++> > leonimar cape wrote: ++> > > Hello gurus, ++> > > ++> > > I am looking for an application that I can use to ++> > > clone my linux application server and save it into a ++> > > CDR/CDRW. I have already check the internet about this ++> > > but I think it would be better to hear it from persons ++> > > who have already such applications. ++> > > Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated. ++> > > ++> > > Thank you very much ++> > > ++> > > Mac ++> > > ++> > ++> Try dd commands to save in other disk..this is the common utils that i am ++> using try to explore also this command if you find to save it on disk then ++> save to CD or DVD. ++> ++ ++if i am not mistaken dd creates an exact clone of your disk so if you ++are cloning a 40GB disk then you would need a 40GB space to save the ++image. my preference is partimage with gzip compression. my 'pristine' ++10GB windows installation takes a little above 2GB space and ++restoration takes less than 10 minutes. :) ++ ++ciao! [<-----snip----->] correct. And that since dd copies every sector exactly (byte for byte, including empty sectors), it's going to take a while. Although, I seem to remember someone mentioning that you can pipe the output through gzip or bzip, but I'd have to check up on that.
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