Re: [SLUG] Drive Imaging

From: R P Herrold (herrold@owlriver.com)
Date: Wed Sep 19 2001 - 13:21:10 EDT


On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Miller, Matt wrote:

> Anyone have any recommendations on *reliable* drive imaging software for
> Linux (something other than symantec ghost)?
> My intention is to copy a disk image (consisting of / , /var, & /home ext2
> partitions) from one physical disk to another.

... rsync will do this is one, in one line on a fdisked and
mkfs's drive:

   rsync -av --exclude -proc --exclude /mnt/build \
      /. /mnt/build/.

where the destination drive is mounted at /mnt/build, and the
source drive is a running system.

-- Russ Herrold



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