Re: Free/Open Source Disk Imaging Tools

[Volker Tanger <volker.tanger () discon de>]

Greetings!

george chamales wrote:
> I was concerned about the possibility of corrupt images due to gluing
> two (albeit solid) tools together but I get the feeling that I may be
> worrying about it too much.
>
> Has anyone had any bad experiences working with dd and netcat?  If not
> I'll consider my question answered.

Yes - good success. Quite scalable. When using it to duplicate PCs we 
found that we could easily clone 50+ multiboot-workstations from a 
single GZIP image on a server - okay, that we had a Gbit/s-interface on 
the server and a decent, switched network infrastructure.

A few occasions we encountered problems whemn re-installing and the 
target disk had corrupt error relocating tables and/or was too small. 
The combination simply is too simple to screw up.
;-)

If you want some docs, see  http://wyae.de/docs/img_dd.php

Bye

Volker Tanger
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