Cloning drive for cf-28

Anyone here use xxclone to clone thier drive on a cf-28? I am using it , is it stable in the long term?

 

we actually used a professional cloning system that ran in dos did up to 20 drives at a time but costs over 1000 dollars

 

Our PC shop uses Norton Ghost, but I was looking for a freeware program. So far it is working, I imaged a 60g that I am running right now, so far no problems. Just worried about long term stability. I was able to put the program on a 4g thumb and it seems to work directly from it so far. I have an image about 1/2 done right now that way. If it works from the thumb and is stable I could use it at work.

 

Ever one to promote high-performance free Linux stuff, dd_rescue works great. It will clone to any drive to anything you can hook up. The fact that you can copy a drive both forwards and backwards will let you skip around bad sectors, great for disaster recovery. It will copy any operating system's drives. It's available on nearly all Knoppix discs. It's syntax for very high speed is this:

Code:

dd_rescue -B 1b 2M -A -V /dev/source /dev/dest

The only gotcha is very carefully correctly identifying which drive is which. Few things are less fun than copying a blank drive over your source drive. Linux names the drives things like /dev/hda (typically the first hard drive or C: in Windows talk) or /dev/hdd (another hard drive).

You get your drives all hooked up and jumpered correctly, boot to the Knoppix disc and copy anything to anything. A little practice, and you can easily get USD $35 an hour recovering data from damaged drives, or dead Windows installs. Just a drive clone is pretty easy. For very badly damaged drives, there is an addon script that will get more data, and save days or weeks of time.

Disclaimer:
Be very careful.
Observe all laws.
Not responsible for accidents.

 

picoshark, very interesting. Have to go through it when I have more time. Sounds like a great program.