[olug] Cheap ghost alternative...

[Kevin]

How often does the "average" user clone partitions on their hard
drive? Or even do anything with partitions?

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 09:17, Kelly Williams <kellywilliams81 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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