[olug] Cheap ghost alternative...

[Kelly Williams]

Clonezilla is good program I think they need to make it simpler to use for
the average user. I have many complaints that is too hard to use.

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Kevin <sharpestmarble at gmail.com> wrote:

> I personally haven't used it, but I've heard that Clonezilla is a free
> alternative to Ghost.
>
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 08:56, Jordan Fox <vmifox at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't know if the project still exists, but a couple years ago I
> > played around with G4L (I'm guessing Ghost for Linux).  You use it
> > nearly the same way as norton ghost.  It worked pretty well.
> >
> > Jordan
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
> >> Over the weekend I needed to copy the partitions of one virtual machine
> to
> >> another over the network (moving HDDs wasn't an option).  For some
> reason I
> >> couldn't quickly find a free tool to do this (I thought the gparted
> tools
> >> use to do this...) but I found a page showing how to use NetCat and DD:
> >>
> >> Source machine:
> >>  dd if=/dev/sda | nc $DEST_IP $DEST_PORT -q10
> >>
> >> Destination Machine @ DEST_IP
> >>  nc -l $DEST_PORT | dd of=/dev/sda
> >>
> >> I was getting ~8MB/sec on in-home lan switch.
> >>
> >> To make the transfer more visible and see the speed in real-time, use
> the
> >> "pv" program - Pipe View.  It goes in-line between the nc and dd
> commands to
> >> show speed of data with output like this:
> >>    1.61GB 0:08:11 [7.63MB/s] [      <=>                                ]
> >>
> >> Place "| pv" between the nc and dd commands like this:
> >>  dd if=/dev/sda | pv | nc $DEST_IP $DEST_PORT -q10
> >>
> >> I didn't try this, but they also suggested to use "gzip" between nc and
> dd
> >> to compress network bandwidth:
> >>  - source: dd .... | gzip  -cf | nc ...
> >>  - destination: nc ... | gzip -dfc | dd ...
> >>
> >> Combining them all together:
> >>  dd if=/dev/sda | pv | gzip -cf | nc $DEST_IP $DEST_PORT -q10
> >> Should show the rate of the raw data being sent across the network.
> >>
> >> Hope someone else finds this useful.
> >>
> >> DanL
> >>
> >> P.S. I booted from a Ubuntu ISO 10.04 image which has dd, nc, and gzip
> by
> >> default - I had to install pv using apt-get IIRC.
> >>
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