On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 15:31, Jim Cornette wrote: > Kevin Freeman wrote: > > >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/ > > > > > Thanks for the mentioning of this program. We are getting ready to move > onto Linux for a system at work. This sounds like a useful program. I'll > try this out, ghosting the linux drives seems to corrupt grub, with my > few trials. yeah.. Partimage is Good for exactly these sort of putposes. It also has an option for transferring over a network. I duplicated my 30GB to my new 80GB with ease.
