On Wed October 6 2010, JB wrote: > Maxime Alarie <malarie <at> processia.com> writes: > > I have never used dd to clone a hard disk. > > > > I use rsync for a lot of my backups , and I was wondering > > what would be the best tool to clone a disk. I don’t want 3rd > > party software also. I want built in command line tools. > > > > I know rsync will resync where it left off if I encounter a > > problem, what about dd? Do I absolutely have to creat an image > > before cloning? > > Ex: dd if=/dev/sda of=sda.img or I can use dd if=/dev/sda > > of=/dev/sdb? > > Neither. ;-) Use G4L or similar. It's free, it's bootable and it does network ->Disk, Disk->Disk or Disk ->Network. :-) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
