[ale] Disk Drive Legerdemain

[Christopher Bergeron]

Jeff, I just recently posted a very similar question, but I didn't get a
reply... However, through my research I found this:

http://www.partimage.org/

It's an openNortonGhost.  From what I've seen so far, it's very complete,
it's really easy to use, and has a lot of potential.

I'm not sure just yet if you can script everything, but I'm assuming you
can.  Anyway, hopefully this will help ya a little bit...

-CB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Hubbs [mailto:hbbs at attbi.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 3:37 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Disk Drive Legerdemain
>
>
> I want to get really good at replicating disk drives.
>
> My objective is to be able to take a given disk drive (not part of a
> RAID set or anything like that), hook up a second drive of arbitrary
> capacity (as long as there is enough room for all partition contents),
> and turn the second drive into a working duplicate of the first drive.
>
> I will want to retain any bootloader in the transition, to include LILO,
> NT/2K's loader, what have you.  The partition table may be different, if
> only out of necessity due to the drives being different sizes and
> geometries.
>
> Keeping in mind that I want to be able to go from basically any drive to
> any other drive, how should I proceed?  I am sure that dd would figure
> into this, especially with respect to the bootloader issue.  However,
> what I'm unclear on is how to copy partition contents when the
> partitions are unequal on unequal drives.  I know you can really mess up
> a drive this way.
>
> It occurs to me that if I start with a drive with NTFS partitions, I
> can't just mount source and target partitions and either rsync or cp
> between them.  How could I use dd in such a case?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Jeff
>
>
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