[geeks] Disk images

[Caleb Shay]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:47:25 -0500, Atom <rescue at port11.net> wrote:
> Hey
> 
> Does anybody know some "faster" way than 'dd' to create and restore disk
> images in unix or *bsd.
> 
> I need to do a whole bunch of machines soon and don't want to wait 30+
> minutes * 600.
> 

I do a TON of disk duplication at my job (we migrate physical machines
to vmware), and our testing has shown that 'cat' is _significantly_
faster than dd.  so just "cat /dev/devnode > file.img" or "cat
file.img > /dev/devnode".

Caleb Shay