Re: Cloning a disk over the Ethernet

H.K. Kingston-Smith staggered into the Black Sun and said:
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:49:36 +0000, Dances With Crows wrote:
H.K. Kingston-Smith staggered into the Black Sun and said:
I have a Linux box A with /dev/hda, [which] I want to clone.
To what end? This is important. If you're backing stuff up, just
back the stuff up with tar or partimage or one of the tons of other
backup utilities.
The stuff in box A is configured and tuned for some particular
hardware. I want to mess with it now, but since it took me ages to
fine tune it I want to make sure that if I somehow break it, I'll have
a pristine copy in a different drive that I can use as before.

Use partimage. Why would having an OS "tuned for some particular
hardware" make any difference when you're talking about backup and
restore? (Well, unless you've got some hairy tuned assembler stuff that
relies on absolute sector positioning or something.)

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