g4u

[Vu Pham]

On 01/21/2010 09:37 AM, C M Reinehr wrote:
> On Thu 21 January 2010 08:26:06 am Vu Pham wrote:
>> I am trying to copy images of several notebooks ( Windows and Linux ) as
>> their backups. g4u allows me to transfer the images to a remote ftp
>> server but I need to copy these images to a local drive ( usb external
>> hard drive ). If I understand correctly, g4u does not have this option:
>> it will not copy images to local disks as files.
>>
>> Am I wrong ? If not, any alternative to g4u to allow me to clone hard
>> drives onto local devices ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vu
>
> At a glance, it looks like the copydisk function will do that:
>
> "4.4 Copying a disk locally
> 	If you just want to copy one local disk to another one with no network&
> server involved, the "copydisk" command is what you want. E.g. to copy the
> first IDE disk to the second IDE disk, use "copydisk wd0 wd1", to do the same
> for SCSI disks run "copydisk sd0 sd1".  Beware! All data on the target disk
> will be erased!
> 	A list of disks as found during system startup can be found using the "disks"
> command."
>

Hi C M,

My post is not clear. I want to store all images as *files* into one 
place, like notebook1.img, notebook2.img into some USB drive, and then 
will use them to restore later. the function copydisk will mirror the 
first disk to the 2nd one, IIRC. I do not have 100  physical disks for 
100 notebooks :)

I can use dd with dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/usb_drive/notebookN.img, but 
then I cannot resize the disk on the fly during a restore.

The only problem with g4u/ftp is that it takes too long to transfer.

Thanks,
Vu