From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: how do 9fans backup their Mac(book)?
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 21:28:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <906e80d587e99006633899b8d56be210@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E87B1D1.9020603@gmail.com>
> 2. Cloning a drive is of limited use on any system.
> Isn't "future proof", doesn't scale, doesn't allow for disk size
> changes or hardware changes.
> Is a necessary part of an Admin Toolkit, but only for very
> particular situations.
really?
what do you mean by "doesn't allow for hardware changes"?
i
also, i'm pretty sure that whenever the new disk is larger
than the end of the last used partition, both fdisk and prep
just see more empty space at the end of the partition. judging
from the spec, gpt should work the same way. where do you
see cloning onto a larger disk failing?
cloning a disk is really common for nas appliances, and it's
not too hard to make your storage whatever size you require.
most advanced storage features of vmware work by cloning
storage. i see the the idea of cloning disks becoming more
prevalent.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-02 1:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-30 15:19 Axel Belinfante
2011-09-30 15:53 ` Anthony Sorace
2011-09-30 17:43 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-09-30 17:59 ` erik quanstrom
2011-09-30 19:21 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-09-30 19:42 ` erik quanstrom
2011-09-30 19:45 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-09-30 19:53 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-01 8:21 ` Anthony Sorace
2011-10-01 15:14 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-10-01 15:24 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-01 15:48 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-10-01 16:49 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2011-10-01 18:21 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-10-01 18:29 ` Anthony Sorace
2011-10-02 15:26 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-11-03 20:54 ` Michaelian Ennis
[not found] ` <CAAQydVjZ42C-GTEFT7E2t=dCQ35fvHzqjSYx9a3o+8v+5D1vfA@mail.gmail.c>
2011-11-03 20:57 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-01 18:15 ` smiley
2011-11-01 18:57 ` Anthony Sorace
2011-09-30 19:50 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2011-10-01 15:21 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-09-30 20:01 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-09-30 21:15 ` Bakul Shah
2011-10-01 17:22 ` John Stalker
2011-10-02 0:35 ` steve jenkin
2011-10-02 1:28 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-10-02 2:28 ` steve jenkin
2011-10-02 2:37 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-02 3:07 ` steve jenkin
2011-10-02 12:38 ` Iruatã Souza
2011-10-03 3:57 ` steve jenkin
2011-10-03 4:02 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-02 13:30 ` Salman Aljammaz
2011-10-03 3:47 ` steve jenkin
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