duplicating Linux installations - Was a wibble wish list

[Jim Cornette]

Kevin Freeman wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 10:57 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote:
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>>I can prepare close 448 Linux hard drives a day using my two disk
>>duplicators. But with the windows drive I can triple that with ease,
>>because it only dumps the data not the free space too, a dump takes 3
>>mins for a 3gig install.
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>Have you tried partimage?  I have used it for backing up machines before
>swapping drives.  The images contain only used data blocks, and when
>restoring you have the option of skipping unused blocks - should be very
>fast if it can be used with your duplicators.
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>http://www.partimage.org/
>http://dag.wieers.com/packages/partimage/
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>Regards,
>Kevin Freeman
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Thanks for the mentioning of this program. We are getting ready to move 
onto Linux for a system at work. This sounds like a useful program. I'll 
try this out,  ghosting the linux drives seems to corrupt grub, with my 
few trials.

Thanks,

Jim