to clone or not to clone that is the question

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 01.08.2004 schrieb Dexter Ang um 17:07:

> > 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

Thanks Dexter for explanation and your point of view. g4u sounds not
that bad and it is free software

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

I think I'll test it if I have an opportunity.

Alexander


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