On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 09:11:46AM -0600, 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.
You don't say what operating system(s) you intend to have on the hard drive. > > 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. That sounds wasteful, depending on how much empty space is on the HD. Also, it allows no flexibility in restoring to larger drives. > > 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? For Linux, try http://www.charlescurley.com/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.html -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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