Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning
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.
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Regards,
Aniruddha
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