On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:05:14 +0200, "Volker Tanger" writes: >True - but DDing a 200GB system disc disc takes quite some time, while >manually handling partition+mkfs+lilo plus RSYNCing 1.2GB usually is >LOTS faster... > >Upgrading to servers with newer/bigger discs is also less painful than >with imaging. > >But for mostly uniform hardware or testlabs (with frequent system >bashing) it's the leisure-factor that is heavily in favour of DD images, >I confess... ;-) That's why I often do dump/restore followed by dd'ing the first couple bytes ;) cheers, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Security Engineer | CoreTec IT-Security \ \ <rw@coretec.at> | T +43 1 503 72 73 | F +43 1 503 72 73 x99 /
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