using dd to backup entire hard drive

Actually, IMHO, Norton Ghost is a reasonably decent piece of software,
especially in that it lets you ghost stuff over a network, which is useful
for backups, if , for example, you have multiple machines and only one with a
CD burner. And the DOS it uses to boot is not MSDOS - I think it's Caldera's
version. The one idiot thing about it is that they make you re-enter the
"license key" when restoring a partition from an image. I think that's an
anti-piracy thing, though it's one of the lamest anti-piracy schemes I've
ever seen. They even make you enter the key when replicating a partition on
the SAME machine!

Vaughn Treude

On Friday 31 January 2003 02:14, you wrote:
> This is double-plus good!
>
> Thinking: Hmmm... migrate to new hard drive...
> 1. Purchase propreitary "ghost" utility, $$$ out of pocket, have to use
> propreitary OS... 2. Use dd and parted and I'm done...
> Which to choose...
>
> I love Free Software!
>
> Alan
>
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com>
> Sent: 01/30/03 09:55 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Re: using dd to backup entire hard drive
>
> > As a follow up, being the impatient person that I am, I just went ahead
>
> and did it.
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdd bs=512
>
> and it worked fine (target drive was slave on secondary controller,
> hence /dev/hdd
>
> copied everything but left the extra space on the target drive
> unpartitioned and obviously parted would have to be used to move and/or
> resize partitions.
>
> Craig
>
>
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