On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:40:58 -0700, "Alexander Santiago" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how long will it take to clone a 40gb hard disk? > > and do you know other disk cloning software? I have just installed > edubuntu > and want to copy it to 25 units... >
i would have liked to use g4u to do a complete clone but from my initial reading it does not do compression which is going to be a killer. what i ended up doing is what i was planning a couple of months back: partimage+samba. and it worked beautifully given that i am cloning 3 ntfs partitions over a heavily congested/routed network. the partitions were 19GB, 20GB and 1GB in size. i did not closely guard the whole process but the creation of the images (gzip compression) took about 3-4 hours and restoring them over the network took another 2 hours per machine. i also had to do some manual disk partitioning prior to the restoration since the recipient machines do not have a compatible partition configuration. i used the last two versions of knoppix since those were the livecds i have in the office. i am pretty sure our network played a major part on the length of the image creation and restoration so your mileage might vary. just for comparison, copying a 600MB file over our network takes anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour depending on the congestion. :( ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back" Anuerin G. Diaz Registered Linux User #246176 Friendly Linux Board @ http://mandrivausers.org/index.php http://capsule.ramfree17.org , when you absolutely have nothing else better to do _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
