Ghosting The Machine

"This is a short but potentially extremely handy guide to ghosting one Linux box to another (or simply making a full backup of a desktop/server). Credit goes to 'topdog' for this.

"You might have a small office where you customise one desktop just how you like it and need to roll this out to N other PC's or simply want a backup of a server or desktop to another machine or even to an image file.

"The main tool here is netcat which is extremely powerful and has a multitude of other great uses that won't be covered here."

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