Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning



On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Robert Robert <robertrobert93@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear All,
I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk
that contains debian OS. I want to do this in order to make an exact copy to
another clean pc with no os at all. What complete free software can I use
for this ? Is there a manual some where on the net about this ?

I highly recommend Clonezilla-live. it makes cloning to/from any sort
of storage very simple. You can clone to an attached usb drive, to a
network drive via nfs, samba, or ssh. (http://www.clonezilla.org/)

Here's a quick, and compeletely non-exhaustive list of cloning options:

http://sysadmin.wikia.com/wiki/Cloning

You'll waste far too much space using dd, if the drive is of any
significant size.

-davidc


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