On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 10:57 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote: > I can prepare close 448 Linux hard drives a day using my two disk > duplicators. But with the windows drive I can triple that with ease, > because it only dumps the data not the free space too, a dump takes 3 > mins for a 3gig install. > Have you tried partimage? I have used it for backing up machines before swapping drives. The images contain only used data blocks, and when restoring you have the option of skipping unused blocks - should be very fast if it can be used with your duplicators. http://www.partimage.org/ http://dag.wieers.com/packages/partimage/ Regards, Kevin Freeman
