On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:00:55 +1200, ramfree17 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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! > >
my bad. g4u has the option to compress the images. it just needs to upload the images on a ftp server ,which i dont have in our network. i forgot the other tool i was investigating but it was only slightly better than dd. :( 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
