DeviceImage Tools

[ldh]

I'm a brand new user of DeviceImage, having been referred here by the PartitionImage forum. I am searching for a tool that will clone two Windows PCs across the network w/o using intermediate files. I was using SystemRescueCD and partimage, but didn't want to do an ntfsresize to shrink the NTFS partition of the source machine so it can fit on the target machine with the same size disk.

I typed commands from the "Network Situation 2" example (last one in the document) and I get a unzsplit usage error in the debug output file of the system B. I have installed zsplit and unzsplit on my SystemRescueCD, so I type the following commands.

Source:
/mnt/cdrom/zsplit -c -d /dev/hda |nc <target IP> 9000

Target:
nc -l -p 9000 |/mnt/cdrom/unzsplit -D /dev/hda -d

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,

Larry
larry.hybl@ncr.com

[Guest]

duh. I didn't put the - (for stdin) at the end of the "nc|unzsplit" pipeline. It's performing the network clone as I type this. Can't wait to see how long it takes!

larry

[quote="ldh"]I'm a brand new user of DeviceImage, having been referred here by the PartitionImage forum. I am searching for a tool that will clone two Windows PCs across the network w/o using intermediate files. I was using SystemRescueCD and partimage, but didn't want to do an ntfsresize to shrink the NTFS partition of the source machine so it can fit on the target machine with the same size disk.

I typed commands from the "Network Situation 2" example (last one in the document) and I get a unzsplit usage error in the debug output file of the system B. I have installed zsplit and unzsplit on my SystemRescueCD, so I type the following commands.

Source:
/mnt/cdrom/zsplit -c -d /dev/hda |nc <target IP> 9000

Target:
nc -l -p 9000 |/mnt/cdrom/unzsplit -D /dev/hda -d

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,

Larry
larry.hybl@ncr.com[/quote]

[Admin]

Hi Larry,

You are absolutely right, the stdin option “-“ was missing. I should see how to change it in my docu html-page to make it more obviously.
The time for cloning depends only on the network performance, this is the bottleneck for this scenario.
Could you post here some test results, such as network speed, device-size and time you needed to clone the device?

Thanks,
Jurij