Re: Software to create images

[Sam Ockman <ockman penguincomputing com>]

Yes...dd does work for this.

One problem is that if you are doing this to have an image in case
your hard drive crashes, you may need a hard drive of identical
geometry in order to restore the dd'd image.

Even harddrives of the same size and same model number and same
manufacturer have an awful tendency to be slightly different under
the covers....so this is not the best backup method, but can be
useful...

-Sam


On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 06:32:53PM +0100, mike wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 16:45, Tinu Patel wrote:
> > 
> > Hi everyone, 
> > 
> > I was wondering if there is another software (other than Norton Ghost
> > and Partition Image) that I can use to create images of my RedHat
> > servers.  I have been having problems with Partition Image since it
> > doesn't recognize the logical raid partition.  I have tried all sorts of
> > things to make it work.  So is there another software like partition
> > image that I can use?
> > 
> 
> Not certain, but doesnt dd do exactly this
> eg: dd if=<partition> of=<name>.img
> 
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