[NBLUG/talk] Creating an image

[Kyle Rankin]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 01:44:09PM -0800, Dustin Mollo wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 01:36:26PM -0800, Todd Cary wrote:
> > In the Windows environment, I use Ghost to create an image of my system 
> > disk for rebuilds or to install on another box.  Is there a way to make 
> > a copy of my custom installation of Fedora in case of a HD failure?
> 
> dd is your friend.  i don't have time to go into a lot of detail here, but
> we're actually working on an imaging system here at my office to use in our
> machine room and it's going to envolve dd and most likely ssh as the
> transport to the server that will store the images.  if people are
> interested, i can dive deeper later when i'm not as busy.
> 
> ignoring the guy's post that started this /. story, there is some good info
> in here about what others use to image their boxes.  most of the free
> solutions suggest dd.
> 
> http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/12/1748242&mode=thread&tid=137&tid=185&tid=190&tid=198&tid=201
> 
> hth,
> 
> -dustin

Heck, sounds like an NBLUG General Meeting topic to me ;)

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