"Ghost" IBM Thinkpad drive

[Chris Bier]

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Rob Becker wrote:
| Read up on dd.  That is included in Knoppix and combining dd with ssh
| and rsync gets you a pretty powerful remote backup utility.  It has been
| a while since I've done this, but I have successfully migrated a laptop
| from one hard drive to another by dding an image of the drive and then
| rsynching it over to another drive via the network.  I was then able to
| restore the data to the new drive by reversing the process.
| If you have questions about the process, I can find some resources and
| bounce them your direction.
| Take care.
| Rob
|
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|
| So...anyone know how to get G4U booting, or even better, if there's a
| "ghost" like utility in knoppix (which boots fine!).
|
|

dd doesn't always work.  In those situations, I use partimage
(http://www.partimage.org/) off of a bootable floppy/CD.

Chris
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