Bob Weber wrote at about 13:23:55 -0500 on Thursday, November 26, 2009: > I have cloned Windows systems (win 2k to XP) by using sysrescucd. What is sysrescucd?
> First I would use ntfsresize to re-size the file system to the > smalist disk I would restore to. This is not necessary if you will > always use the same disk size or larger. Then I would copy the > first 100 megs or so (not really sure how much is necessary but > this amount allways worked) using dd. If the destination disk was > a different size I would use fdisk to resize the c: partition to > the size of the new disk making sure the partition always started > at the same block as the original. If the size is the same I would > use fdisk to write the the original partition table back so the > kernel would know the disk partition table changed (this saves a > reboot since the dd copy process copies a new partition table > also). Next I would use ntfsclone to clone the whole ntfs file > system. ntfsclone just copies the data and directory structure so > it is usually pretty fast. If the disk is bigger than the original > I would use ntfsresize to resize the ntfs file system to the new > partition. > Not sure why you need to use 'dd' before ntfsclone. I thought that ntfsclone was supposed to clone the entire ntfs filesystem at a low level -- analogous to Norton Ghost. If you are just trying to copy over the partition table then why not just export that using something like 'sfdisk -d /dev/sdx'. If you are trying to copy over the MBR, then you would just need to use dd on the first 512 bytes (if memory servers me). If I am mistaken, I would be interested in knowing what part of an NTFS is not copyable by just using ntfsclone (and any sources for additional info would be most helpful.) Thanks > This seems pretty complicated but I used a script to automate the > process. I used this at a local school system to create classroom > images saved to Linux server that I could later use to populate all the > computers in a class. The 2 files for each image were compressed with > gzip and transferred with ssh to and from the Linux server. Check out > the documentation that comes with ntfsclone to see examples. > > ...Bob > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content > by MailScanner4.66/SA 3.2.3/Bingo, and is believed to be clean. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/