Transferring disks with partimage

[Karl F. Larsen]

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Joep L. Blom wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
> Karl,
> Thanks, however, it has to be transferred to another system and as far 
> as I know does dd not work over a network.
> Joep
> 
	As I think about it this must be the case because you can easy have the
case of going from /dev/sda1 to /dev/sda1 which will not fly. Sorry.

	But rsync does go over the network.



73 Karl


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