[NTLUG:Discuss] Full system backup-restore for Desktop PC

Tue Jun 28 00:45:02 CDT 2005

Howdy,
  Backing up the whole drive to one image is a little faster, but has a
significant potential problem.  You have to restore it to a drive with
the same geometry as the backup.  I have seen restoring a file made on a
40 gig seagate to a 40 gig western digital fail for that reason.  It
might be ok for Bradley, because he will be restoring to the same exact
drive.
Good day,
Ralph

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 22:08 -0500, brian at pongonova.net wrote:
> dd if=/dev/hda of=backup.image bs=1024
> 
> We use this method to "ghost" our lab drives across NFS with various