Re: [debian-knoppix] beating ghost
P.S. try bzip2 compression.
On Thu, 29 May 2003, Nathaniel Sbar wrote:
> 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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