Re: OT: Hard disk mirror with Paragon on USB stick?

On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:41:44 -0800, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


That boils down to about the same effort as a complete re-install onto a
new HD, plus Linux is quite nerdy, requires you to know the magic
command line Swahili with which I am not familiar.


Bulloney. Linux distros support archival retrieval, and copying that
volume to another will yield a perfect, functional, bootable copy. No
re-installs required, no magic words. Linux installations are typically
image copies for most applets and applications that get installed. Not
much gets compiled during the installation runtime.
.

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