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Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning



On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 21:49 +0200, Aniruddha wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 14:18 -0400, David Clymer wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Robert Robert <robertrobert93@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > > I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk
> > > that contains debian OS. I want to do this in order to make an exact copy to
> > > another clean pc with no os at all. What complete free software can I use
> > > for this ? Is there a manual some where on the net about this ?
> > 
> > I highly recommend Clonezilla-live. it makes cloning to/from any sort
> > of storage very simple. You can clone to an attached usb drive, to a
> > network drive via nfs, samba, or ssh. (http://www.clonezilla.org/)
> > 
> 
> Clonezilla uses partimage which I haven't found too reliable. I still
> prefer to tar /. It works perfectly every time. 

Clonezilla allows you to pick the method you want it to use. One of
those methods is partimage. Others are dd, ntfsclone, and partclone. 

-davidc

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