I have 2 partitions on my hard disk1. sda1 is ext3 partitoins with MINT linux2. sda2 ntfs partitions with my files and movies I want to copy, make backup of my sda1 partitions and store it to file (image) in some folder in sda2.In windows I have made that many times with Acronis and ghost, but I dont know how to make it in MINT.Is there some manual that explain that.
View 13 RepliesI recently installed Linux to run a few Linux based tools on a disk images I have, and I can't seem to copy the disk image over to my ext3 partition.
The particular distibution I'm using is BackTrack 4 r2, which is Ubuntu based. I can't seem to find specifically which version of Ubuntu is being used. The disk image is 108GB. It is currently located on a NTFS partition on a SATA hard drive connected directly to the computer. The ext3 partition is located on a second SATA hard drive connected to the same computer. It has 200GB total. I do not remember exactly how much free space it had but "df -h" showed a lot more than 108GB. The computer has 4GB of RAM and I gave it 8GB of swap space.
At this point it has been running for more than 12 hours. This is far longer than I would expect it to take had I been copying the file under Windows. How ever I do not have much experience with Linux, so if it's supose to take this long please let me know. I am planning on letting it run until I wake up tomorrow.
"cp -v" hasn't been very verbose at all. The only sign I have that indicates the computer is still trying to do something is the HDD light on my chasis that has stayed lit this whole time.
I got a new hard disk for my laptop and I want to move my Gentoo installation from old HDD to new.
Most simple guides recommend use of dd to copy the whole partition byte by byte.
I'm moving to the new drive because I don't have enough space on the old drive, so I don't want to simply clone the partition. Instead I need the destination partition to be bigger. Would dd work well in that case?
Assuming that I use same partition types on the new drive, would I be able to use simple cp with appropriate settings?
I can take apart my computer and fix a problem and then re-install the partitions. Hopefully I won't have to re-install, but I want to make backups just in case
-HP laptop with a windows (NTFS) and an Ubuntu (ext3) partition ~ 500GB total
-Iomega 1TB external hard drive partitioned into a 500GB NTFS storage, 250GH BLANK ext3 Linux Backup, and 250GB BLANK NTFS Windows Backup.
I want to copy my windows and linux to their respective 250GB spaces on the External HD.
1.) Can you direct me to places on the net that describes this in detail?
2.) Can I copy a partition while running that partition?
3.) Will copying C:/ in windows over to the external HD copy entire partition?
4.) Can I copy a Laptop partition to a external HD partition that is bigger?
5.) Do I have to use partition manager software or can I do this from terminal/cmd prompt?
I'm a linux user for some time now and most stuff I can figure out myself. Though, this one drives me crazy and I did not find any information on the internet.I have a partition, say, Code: /dev/sda1 , which is 128MB big. When I copy it using Code: dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/home/me/backup_sda1.img , the resulting file is 134MB big. Now my problem is that I want to copy that partition as-is to a CF card, which does not work because the image is bigger than the partition on the CF card.Why does dd create bigger files? Shouldn't it be exactly same sized like the source?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI did it in 8.04, my question is when I left (opposite) click the desktop CD/DVD icon and select Copy from the pop-up menu where does the extracted image end up.Its always worked well enough I never worried about it, but today I needed some copies of a DVD a coworker authored that had one of those lame "Stomper" labels stuck on. It was applied off center and made the disk so unbalanced it appeared to read at 1X or less I was expecting an option to save the image but didn't get one. Anyone know if its still on my hard drive somewhere so I can avoid the tedium of ripping it again?
View 6 Replies View RelatedIm pretty sure there is a utility that copies byte for byte for linux that i could use to copy an image of a usb and later write it to another.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI have some large image files that are 30 gig and more. I am running Ubuntu 9.10 whenever I try to copy one of these files to another drive I get a error saying the file is too large. I am trying to copy from an external Hard Drive or a slave drive does the same thing. I have a friend who has expressed the same issue. This must be a widespread bug.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am pretty much a noob when it comes to Linux. But I desperately need to do exactly what the title of this thread says.I have this ISO file which is a bootable CD image. But instead of booting off of a CD, I want to boot from a USB flash drive. I understand that I can't simply just burn it with ImgBurn or whatever, and then just drag and drop the files and folder to a USB flash drive. Because hidden files, bootloader, etc. would not be visible and not copied. I know I'm in for some special software in order to copy every single byte from that ISO image to my USB flash drive.
I did try extracting the ISO with PeaZip (7-zip based) under Windows Vista, but that didn't work out very well. It resulted in a few files and folders, totaling in at about 2 KB, while the source ISO file is actually some 50 MB. WinRAR, on the other hand, would simply just create an empty folder where to put the files (no files created/extracted), flash before my eyes and call it a day ("complete").I have learned from other posters on other forums that there is this Unilx program/command called DD. How can I use DD to accomplish this task?
After I burn the DVD image, I put the disc on the computer and boot. The installation screen appears, the acknowledgement screen appears, then the installation checks my system and gives me a yast window with an error about something related to URLs and repositories. I cannot continue with the installation.
I am 100% new at this and thought it would be as easy as installing ubuntu (which I installed on a laptop and works flawlessly).I am trying distros and opensuse is compatible with my video card right out of the box apparently, so that's why I chose it for my desktop.Do I need to copy the dvd image to the hard disk of the computer I want to install opensuse on, and use the dvd to boot as well?
I am running Fedora 10 and would like to move from my 40gb hard disk to a larger (320gb drive). I would like to take an exact image of the smaller drive and put this on the bigger drive.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to get the dd command to successfully copy a disk image to a remote system.Right now I am testing out the syntax by trying to copy the /dev/sda1 directory of the subject computer. The command syntax that I am using is the following:Code:dd if=/dev/sda1 ibs=4096 conv=notrunc,noerror | (ssh 132.183.12.128 of=/roarchive/test obs=4096)The user account running this command is root, and the account does have key-based authentication between the source and destination computers. The command does not return any error messages, but when I check the directory on the destination system, the expected output is not there.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am using redhat linux4 and qt4.6. I have created an application in qt, which i want to link to frame buffer using C programme and display it onto the xserver or/and on the hawkboard.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs there any software that will create an image of my Hard Drive and put it on DVD as it is and if I had to reinstall I could use that image?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI just got a 2TB drive with the intention of backing up multiple Ubuntu machines to it. What would be the best way to do this, keeping ease of restoration in mind? Should I just copy each drive image to the BU drive, or use a utility like Back in Time?
View 8 Replies View RelatedThis isn't exactly a Linux question, because it also happens with the Windows version, but I've got a pdf file with a number of images in it. When I try to copy the image, it works except the pasted image is just a blank rectangle.I've tried this with The Gimp on Linux and Windows, Photoshop Elements on Windows, and some other programs. I get similar results from all of them. Sometimes the rectangle is transparent, sometimes black, but never the image I've selected. However the rectangle does appear to be the size of the selected image, so something is being picked up.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI need to run the files everyday at 11.00 pm (Monday to Friday).
How would I put on cronjob? I have files ready.
I am using centos server, i delete and touch maillog file in /var/log/maillog but every other days it gets about 3 - 4GB please help how can i stop this
log are like this
Code:
Jun 27 04:23:09 localhost postfix/smtpd[25765]: warning: not enough free space in mail queue: 0 bytes < 1.5*message size limit
Jun 27 04:23:10 localhost postfix/smtpd[25765]: lost connection after MAIL from unknown[200.74.196.82]
Jun 27 04:23:10 localhost postfix/cleanup[25987]: 3F8E110011: message-id=<20100627032310.3F8E110011@localhost.bgssuk.com>
Jun 27 04:23:10 localhost postfix/cleanup[25987]: warning: 3F8E110011: write queue file: No space left on device
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install imagemagick python, and pygtk.
Code:
sudo apt-get install imagemagick python pygtk
Now save the following script somewhere as imgclip.py. This is a simple python script which takes an image file and puts it in the gnome-clipboard.
Code:
#! /usr/bin/python
import pygtk
pygtk.require('2.0')
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I have bunch of environment variables that i have to set always for my work.Someone mentioned i can write a script to dp this and i googled it but haven't been successful so far and have to manually do them every time. I have a tcsh shell.I read that i need to change the .login or .tcshrc files but havent been successful in finding these.
View 15 Replies View RelatedI am new to Linux and have Fedora 14 installed in my home pc and notebook, I installed open office 3.3.0 in both. The open office stops working next day and shows as not installed in the add/remove software in my home pc. I reinstall then it works in that session and nextday disappears, This has now happened five times. i installed linux only one week back and everyday i have been installing open office. I have been doing all the updates till now.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI wish it was under better circumstances...very morning at 6:25am syslog-ng stops logging, right after it attempts to log rotate. its odd... the daemon doesnt die... it gets a new PID, but doesnt write the output to /var/log/syslog.Yet if I manually restart or reload syslog-ng it works great... its just like it doesnt like the logrotate...I have googled around and tried a few things...first I changed the postrotate in the logrotate.d/syslog-ng
--------/etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng---------
/var/log/syslog {
rotate 7
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I have a server A that needs to connect to another server (B) to transfer data everyday.[A] ==SFTP==> [B]
I am using SFTP for the data transfert between A and B. I configured B to allow authentication only with a key, not with password. However, anybody who acccess the filesystem of A, could steal the password.
So I thought I could password protect the private key from A. But in such a case, I need to store the password somewhere on A, so the server A can access the private key to connect to B. Finally, it is endless: i always have to store somewhere a secret on A. Is there another solution that allow to have an authentication between A and B without storing plain text secret on the server A ?
I'm using comcast, and I setup my server, everything works fine.But later I found out that the server inet address is changing everyday, and it makes my server almost not accessible.Is there anyway to fix that problem??
View 5 Replies View RelatedIs there anyway to copy a drive that has a working Ubuntu OS such as on sda1 and put it on sda 7 or 8 of the same hard drive
What I want to copy is my first of 4 primary partitions sda1 and put it on a logical drive on my extended drive and be able to boot from them
My hard drive has 2 15 gig primary partitions set up for ubuntu and kubuntu on sda1 and sda2. sda3 is a 2gig swap, while the last partition sda4 is extended it has several 15 gig logical partitions for more ubuntus
I have hdd with sda1(windows xp)(4gb) and sda2(my files)(10gb)I have conected usb memory which apperas as sdb1 (4gb)What I want is to copy sda1 to sdb1.I did it this way:Code:
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1When I check what there are in sdb1 and disk was full but no files and folders were stored there.
I am trying to mirror partitions from one harddisk to another.dd if=/dev/sda7 of=/dev/sdb7 bs=4k conv=noerror 2Strangely, it refuses to copy anything inside the www directory. I've tried many times with the same result - /var/www is empty in the target harddisk.I do this all the time without any problem on Etch. On this Lenny box, mirroring other partitions seems fine except for /var.
View 4 Replies View RelatedNow I have learned creating partition in linux (ubuntu), well that's an achievement for a newbie.
The next thing that I want to know is, how can I copy the contents of a partition to another partition. Like if I want to backup its content to a new partition that Im going to create.