Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> ...
>> In fairness, Ghost does much, much more than dd does. In particular, 
>> Ghost comprehends NTFS, so you can do things like restore to a 
>> partition of a different size, backup only the "used" sectors, etc. It 
>> also has the ability to backup and restore over the network using 
>> compression and so forth.
> 
> knoppix@Knoppix:~$ konqueror man:dd man:ssh man:gzip &
> knoppix@Knoppix:~$ sudo su -
> root@Knoppix:~# dd if=/dev/sda bs=1k conv=sync,noerror | gzip -c | ssh 
> -c blowfish andrew@linuxbox "dd of=sda.img.gz bs=1k"

None of this lets you restore to a partition of a different size or backup 
only the used sectors, or browse the files in the backup over the network 
without decompressing them.

It also doesn't let you clone a new Windows machine from an old one.

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