using dd to backup entire hard drive

[Craig White]

I might agree that Ghost is decent software but when considered against
open source / free software, it's analogous to being partially pregnant.
Of course, I can get a discount to upgrade from Ghost 2002 to 2003 and
I'm not licensed to use it on any computer but my own...and then the
partially pregnant thing really hits home.

Craig

On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 06:30, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> 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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