On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 14:18 -0400, David Clymer wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Robert Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Dear All, >> > I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk >> > that contains debian OS. I want to do this in order to make an exact copy >> > to >> > another clean pc with no os at all. What complete free software can I use >> > for this ? Is there a manual some where on the net about this ? >> >> I highly recommend Clonezilla-live. it makes cloning to/from any sort >> of storage very simple. You can clone to an attached usb drive, to a >> network drive via nfs, samba, or ssh. (http://www.clonezilla.org/) >> > > Clonezilla uses partimage which I haven't found too reliable. I still > prefer to tar /. It works perfectly every time. >
tar doesn't solve the problem of making a *real* copy of the HDD. It only makes a backup of the files that a particular user can read. I've always been using dd for this task, but ofcourse like someone else mentioned, I always have a bootable livecd available to dd the image back to the hdd. -- Sharninder http://nomadicrider.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
