[Gllug] Bootable USB backup like OS X dmg?

[Tethys]

John Hearns writes:

>> I have cloned many a unix box, by just taring up all the files and
>> extracting them on a new harddrive,
>
>tar good but rsync better

Not really. rsync is great for keeping two filesystems in sync, but
it's painfully slow for doing the initial copy. tar is much better
there. Or dd piped into netcat, which as everyone knows, is the
cloning tool of the gods.

Tet
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