[olug] Cheap ghost alternative...

[Kevin]

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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