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Re: [PLUG] New Linux Machines and cloning?
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On Friday 02 December 2005 01:48 pm, Edward Pike wrote:
> there is this program called 'partimage' that can
> lift an image of partitions and store them as
> files. you then restore the partition using
> the image file/s. Its faster than dd and you can
> see the progress.
We use this at work for client installs. It's effective and reasonably fast.
(We do a 5 gig install from DVD in about 10 minutes or so, using compressed
partition images and a fairly simple boot script).
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