On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 00:23, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm that jerk who questions your methods instead of answering your question. > D.S.Linux runs dd to clone the main hard > drive to an identical hard drive in an external SATA cradle, then > shuts down. dd is hardly the fastest way to copy data. i see what you're going for, though--obviously rsync or similar "don't copy already-same areas" tool won't necessarily create a bootable copy of windows. i didn't find any tools like dd+xdelta out there but there must be a more efficient tool...does something like ghost (non free, but if you're dealing with windows anyway...) do that? i can't imagine that 95% of the disk changes each usage, so it seems like an area of this process rich for optimization. i wonder if you have already optimized partition size down to the bare minimum and just dd that partition? seems like optimizing boot time when it must be such a tiny part of the time taken to make the copy is ignoring amdahl's argument that one should optimize the slowest thing first rather than the easiest... sorry i don't have an actual answer for you :( luck++; _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
