Re: Somewhat OT: cloning hard disks

[Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>]

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On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 02:14:54AM -0400, luke wrote:
> One potential problem with dd, is that there is no integrety checking.  I 
> don't know if there is with partimage either, but with multiple gig 
> drives, you may run into circumstances where that would be a good thing to 
> have.

There's no integrity checking in partimage, at least in the sense I
think you're referring to. However, you could restore the backup with
the --simulate flag passed to partimage, which would cause it to
simulate restoring the backup. So far, I've never had an actual
restoration of a backup with partimage go bad, after having the
simulated restore go ok.

Greg


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