Transferring disks with partimage

[Karl F. Larsen]

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Joep L. Blom wrote:
> Following my question of 07/12/09 I would like to know if anybody has 
> experience with transferring partitions over the network to another system.
> As I wrote I want to transfer partitions (> 10) to another system on one 
> disk. I found I can use partimage to make an imagefile and transfer it 
> either directly or indirectly to the other system.
> However, I have the following questions:
> 1.	 When I restore the image do I need an unformatted partition?
> 2.	Can I combine several partition images into one restored image?
> I hope somebody has experience with it. Googling I didn't found relevant 
> information.
> Joep
> 
	I would use DD to transfer your partitions. I expect partimage uses DD.

	It will look like this:

 $ dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/sdb2 bs=2048 conv=notrunc

	This will quickly send everything in /dev/sda2 to sdb2 and it works fine.


73 Karl


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