Keith Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 I'm looking for a free disk cloning program that will copy my entire hdd to a network computer. It needs to boot from a cd and can put the image on a network share preferably compressed and cant be os specific. I found some but they dont do what i want. Anyone know of a good one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 Any linux live CD that supports your netowrk card (I recommend Ubuntu :D) which will give you use of the dd and netcat commands. On the receiving computer run some thing like: netcat -l -p 8673 >> hdimagefile On the transmitting computer: dd if=/dev/hda | netcat -n <ip of computer> -p 8673 This is perhaps the simplest method, but it has a few issues. For one, if the reciving computer receives any traffic on port 8673 that will make it's way in to the image. May be my methodology is completely wrong, I mean, I'v never done this my self, but there's no particular reason it won't work that I can see :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 I've fairly certain that -n isn't needed, and that -p is wrong for the transmitting computer, it should just be "netcat <ip> <port>" (although netcat is usually called nc rather than netcat in my experience). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Posted May 28, 2007 Author Share Posted May 28, 2007 Ok if i did it that way how would i restore the image? Also kinda off topic but if i had a file with one name per line, how could i rename a bunch of folders to match those in the file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 Ok if i did it that way how would i restore the image? Boot off a live CD that has netcat on it (most Linuxes out there probably do. The security distros are sure to). On the image hosting computer dd if=hddimage | nc -l -p 8763 And on the machine you want to image: nc <ip> -p 8763 | dd of=/dev/hdX Also kinda off topic but if i had a file with one name per line, how could i rename a bunch of folders to match those in the file? I don't understand the question. Going through a file one line at a time is easy, but how do you see the 'renaming a bunch of folders' part? Does the file contain foldernames that should have some text prepended or something? What? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Posted May 28, 2007 Author Share Posted May 28, 2007 I want to rename some folders based on what is in the file. For example the file contains the following. ABC ABCD ABCDE .... And the folders are 1 2 3 4 .... Is it possible to have a script read the file and rename folder 1 to ABC, folder 2 to ABCD, 3 to ABCDE, etc....? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 for word in `cat file` do COUNTER=$(($COUNTER + 1)) mv /path/to/"$word" /path/to/$COUNTER done Set the IFS variable to just newlines to allow the word variable to be the full line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 I'd just like to point out again that you don't use the -p argument to specify the port to connect to on the computer acting as a client. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xPAKxMaster Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 you can also use ghost symantec if you dont know how to use linux.... 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 you can also use ghost symantec if you dont know how to use linux.... 8) On digg there was an ISO for disk clone and gparted. Plus a bunch of tools for what you're trying to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xPAKxMaster Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 oh yeah i saw that is it still there? my friend has been looking for that.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest requiemnoise Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 free http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/ if you got to have Windows feel and got some cash, http://www.acronis.com/ The older versions of Ghost was good till year 2001. Now, it is a bloated piece of shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unasoto Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 I used G4U and I like it it save the image useing ftp http://fbim.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xPAKxMaster Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 sweet, thanks guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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