full-disclosure - Imaging Operating Systems

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From: nick at virus-l.demon.co.uk (Nick FitzGerald)
Subject: Imaging Operating Systems

"Volker Tanger" <volker.tanger@...ewe.de> wrote:

> Ghost won't work (IIRC) on unknown OS types as it ony copies used data
> blocks. Netcat does a binary copy and does not care what OS or data...

That just might be a limitation if you are GUI-bound, but I'm sure 
there are (or, at least were on the most recent version of Ghost I've 
looked at and used, which may not be quite the newest) switches for 
commandline use for creating "raw" image backups.

Regards,

Nick FitzGerald