Transferring disks with partimage

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:48 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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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.

a) ... assuming there is no power loss or whatever might cause the
   command to be interrupted;
b) ... assuming partition sizes match.

Btw, Karl: did you ever notice that dd's command line syntax
differs considerably from all other standard commands?

Regs
 Siggy
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