to clone or not to clone that is the question

[Dexter Ang]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Just because of interest: what does g4u do different than dd?

Well it all comes down to the fact that I'm not that familiar with dd 
when it comes to cloning harddrives. It's probably as easy as dd 
if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb. In fact, g4u uses dd as well. And it compresses 
and puts the image on an ftp server. And it uses a bootable NetBSD disk 
(either floppies or a CD iso). Except I don't have to see all this, and 
have to type all the commands (or make a script for it).

So it all basically is because I'm lazy. And the fact that I don't have 
to teach those who were helping me. They just boot of a CD, and then 
type slurpdisk server image.gz.

It's just fun to use some new tool =)

dex