[debian-knoppix] beating ghost
I need some help to justify the use of GPL'd software
to my supervisor in the replacement of Norton Ghost.
So far, I've used UDPcast and by itself, it does a
wonderful job. The problem is that sometimes, we need
to save an image of a hard drive instead of just
copying one hard drive to another. We can't use the
network, so to facilitate this, we purchased an
external USB 2.0 hard drive. I connected the external
drive, booted off the Knoppix CD, build 2003-03-30,
started in runlevel 2, and made the following series
of commands.
- modprobe ehci-hcd
- mount /dev/sdb
- dd if=/dev/hda | lzop > /mnt/sdb/test.lzo
OK, I might have thrown a cd or ls in there, but these
are the important commands. The process worked, but
after about an hour of waiting, I decided to ^c.
About 10GB of a 20GB hard drive had been copied so
far. This is compared to the same drive being fully
Ghosted in about 15 minutes to a test.gho file. Does
anybody know what I can do to make dd more
competetive?
Nate Sbar
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