On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> ------------------------------------------------------------- > The question: > Are there any simpler or faster-booting techniques out there? > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Not that I'm aware of. > about, and should be adequate for this task - assuming I can *always* > keep the source and the target drives straight, probably with some > combination of /dev/sdX identifiers and a timestamp someplace. ) > I'd suggest writing a script that pulls the serial number or model number off the drives before running dd, just to be sure. Also, the suggestion to look at G4U and whatnot won't really buy you anything. They have a snappy name, but really just use dd (or sometimes dd and netcat) under the covers. For what it sounds like you're trying to accomplish, a purpose-written script and dd sound like the way to go. I'm curious though, why not just do this once to get your system clone, and then backup whatever data she's created more selectively? That would surely save quite a lot of time. QH _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
