[ale] Ghost for Linux

[PBoyington at polyengineering.com (Preston Boyington)]

Brian MacLeod wrote:
> Mario Horvat of Sentinel Data Security has a nice write up
> for using dd
> both locally and over the network.  Page 13 of the PDF is extremely
> helpful, as I use this to clone XP machines using Knoppix CDs.
> http://www.sentinelsecurity.net/whitepapers/diskcloning.pdf
> 
> This site also is pretty good, and does a bit of explaining why some
> methods are better than others when using dd.
> http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints/os_clone/os_cloning.html
> 
> 
> Brian

is there a way to exclude directories when using dd?  i wouldn't want to image the "restore points" if i could help it.

preston