I'm curious what others are using to do a bare metal restore of Linux systems. Here is my problem. I just got a new 80G hard drive for my laptop. The existing 60G hard drive contains a windows and Linux partition that I dual boot. All I need to do is transfer the existing data to the new drive. Here are some of the things I've tried so far
Partimage http://www.partimage.org/ The image creation on the 60G takes about 30min. The restore however using the same hardware and network setup was going to tak 5 Days and counting zsplit/zunsplit http://www.device-image.de/ This looks like a cool project worthy of more investigation. I was able to restore the 60G(it took 7hrs) on the 80G drive but there was data corruption. dd with netcat On the master machine containing the 60G drive I did the following: master# dd if=/dev/hda | nc <slaveip> <slaveport> On the slave machine containing the 80G drive I did the following: slave# nc -l -p 9000 | dd of=/dev/hda This method was the fastest(3.2 hours to restore) but the machine is dog slow in both windows and Linux. At this point I'm resolved to just reinstall everything on the new hard drive and copy my files over but there has got to be an easier way than spending hours doing a reinstall, not to mention all of the custom tweaks and configurations. .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
