attack of the clones

• Most basic form – clone one disk to another

  • dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hdd (to clone)
  • dd if=/dev/hdc of=/path/to/file.img (backup to file)
  • dd if=/path/to/file.img of=/dev/hdc (restore from file)

• Assumes that hdc is smaller or equal in size to hdd

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