On Wednesday 21 June 2006 09:11, Stephen Ward wrote: > I'm looking for a convenient way to image a single hard drive and then > deploy it on out to a bunch of other drives with capacity greater than or > equal to that of the original. > > What I've come up with is to use the dd command to rip the raw data off the > drive and save it to a file. I'd like to store the file on a large Windows > share, so I'd probably mount the share with samba and then just tell dd to > save the file there. Then to deploy, I'd just do the reverse. > > Maybe I'd mix in a little gzip/gunzip piping as well. > > Any thoughts? Is there already some tool out there designed for this that > would save me a few steps?
You could just export /dev/hdX as an nbd, and on the target machine use dd to copy it. That should have far less overhead than smb/cifs. Even nc should out perform smb/cifs. If you want, you could still image the file and store it on the windows box. There is a port of the nbd-server for windows. -- Respectfully, Nicholas Leippe Sales Team Automation, LLC 1335 West 1650 North, Suite C Springville, UT 84663 +1 801.853.4090 http://www.salesteamautomation.com /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
