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Old 02-20-2008, 06:48 AM
Miguel De Anda
 
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Default Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: zsplit, unzsplit: linux tools to make a full driveimage backup!

jurij@device-image.de wrote:
> Please visit the homepage of DeviceImage-Project: http://www.device-image.de


I don't think the 1.0.1 version fixed the bug you had on the site
before. The one where you needed to be in /dev before you ran the command.

Maybe you should merge both programs into a single program. Its like
having:

alias tarc="tar c"
alias tarx="tar x"

It doesn't really make sense to have this. Also, it seems dumb to have
to pipe a zsplit to a unzsplit to copy from one drive to another:

zsplit ... | unzsplit ...

I haven't tried piping it that way, (didn't think of it until after I
made the image to disk and started putting it on the second disk. (I was
enlarging the hard drive on a vmware instance)

I briefly looked at the source the other day, looking for a simple way
to out some kind of progress output, but I couldn't find anything. Can
you maybe add a flag to show progress kinda like wget's output? I'll
look over the code again anyways though.



But other than those few thing I don't like about the software, it seems
pretty good. I've only used it from within vmware, but I'm going to
backup a new laptop I'm getting and put it to real use.
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