Ubuntu :: Disk Cloning With Clonzilla Versus DD
Jan 1, 2010Is there any reason why is DD still prefer over clonezilla for disk cloning?
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Ubuntu :: Cloning Disk W/o Unmounting
Apr 18, 2011I've spent the better part of an afternoon looking for a solution to a problem: backing up my installation of 10.10 as an image file to an external hard drive. My research has yielded a lot of suggestions for clonezilla, dd, and partimage/particlone, but those don't seem very appealing, due to a number of issues (can't backup live, copies free space as well, doesn't handle ext4, etc). Also why is clonezilla 150mb?
I'd like a simple solution that can clone an entire disk (used space only) to an explorable image file on a separate hard drive and be able to do it while the operating system is running on the disk. I used to use apricorn ez gig to do this on windows and it worked like a charm, but I can't seem to find a similar solution that creates and explorable .iso image file with linux. I've used superduer on osx, which is awesome and i wish there was something like that for ubuntu/linux.
Ubuntu Installation :: Cloning To Smaller Disk?
Jun 3, 2010I have my Mythbuntu 9.10 environment installed on an old 160GB PATA disk and have just purchased a new 64GB SSD that I want to transfer my installation to.In the past I've just used ddrescue to clone disks, however in this case the source disk is larger than the destination disk so it won't work. I only have a few GB of actual data on the 160GB disk, so the 64GB SSD is definitely going to be enough for me.
I guess I need someway of either cloning so that only the actual data and not the partition is brought across, or possible shrinking the partition(s) first on the source drive and then using the same ddrescue method I've used in the past.Just looking for some assistance on what method is the best/most reliable?
Ubuntu :: Cloning Bootable Hard Disk
Feb 21, 2011Recently my had disk crashed. It has taken me over a day to install and setup the drive - time I can't really afford. I'd like to know how I can clone a second as a bootable copy of the main hard drive and update from time to time. Therefore if the main hd fails again, I can simple boot from the second drive.How can I do this? I have two sata drives in the box, running 10.10 desktop.
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Mar 2, 2011Recently my had disk crashed. It has taken me over a day to install and setup the drive - time I can't really afford.I'd like to know how I can clone a second as a bootable copy of the main hard drive and update from time to time. Therefore if the main hd fails again, I can simple boot from the second drive.
View 1 Replies View RelatedOpenSUSE :: Fog Disk Cloning Solution
Jun 14, 2009just wanting to know if anyone has implemented Fog (fogproject.org) on openSUSE. We use it at work throughout our enterprise for reimaging machines and it works very well.
View 4 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: How To Create Bootable Cd With Disk Cloning Software
Feb 3, 2010I'd like to have a bootable cd which then allows me to clone a hard drive, much like the "Ghost" application. I need to copy Fat32, NTFS, as well as the various Linux formats. I've not created a bootable cd before, so a step-by-step would be rather handy.
View 2 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Cloning A Large Disk With Little Actual Used Space
Aug 10, 2010I need to clone a laptop drive to a desktop drive. The laptop drive disk is 150 gb, however, only about 8 gb is used. Is it possible to clone this disk to a smaller drive?
View 3 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Block Size For Disk Cloning With Diskdump (dd)?
Jan 17, 2011I use dd in its simplest form to clone a hard drive dd if=INPUT of=OUTPUT However, I read in the manpage that dd knows a blocksize parameter. I was wondering whether there is an optimal value for the blocksize parameter that will speed up the cloning procedure?
View 4 Replies View RelatedCentOS 5 Hardware :: Cloning Image Of Hard Disk
Nov 7, 2010I just invested nearly 12 hours configuring a CCTV system using CentOS 5.5 Server and Zoneminder. I have it setup just the way I want it. I would like to make a clone image of the drive just in case disaster strikes (lightning strike, failed hard disk, etc). In the Windows PC world, I use a program called Ghost to make a mirror image of a hard disk. I power the computer down, run Ghost to make a block level clone of the drive, then power it back up. Can I assume that will work with CentOS without problem?
In the computer now is a 320GB SATA drive. One partition on it is swap, and the other is ext3. There is no raid setup on the drive. I have an identical 320GB drive I could use and keep it in the computer unplugged from the power and not spinning. That way if anything ever happens, I can power down, move the power and data cable to the new drive and power it back up. Granted, I will lose any new config and database changes, but it will be a lot better than starting back at square 1 and reconfiguring the entire OS and software.
Fedora :: After Cloning To Bigger Hdd / Can Boot Only Over Super Grub Disk CD
Mar 21, 2011I cloned F14 with Clonezilla from 80GB to 320GB hdd(both sata disks), and then resized the partitions with GParted.But I can not boot into fedora on the new/bigger disk, it stops and the display writes "Loading stage 1.5" if I remember corectly,I tried to fix it with the live cd but with no efect.
Then i found Super Grub Disk live CD, and with that i tried to use their fix, which was the same as with the Fedora live cd i tried before, again no efect.Then i played around with Super Grub, and found the option to boot GNU/Linux indirectly, and with that metod i got results, found my menu.lst file and chose the kernel i wanted and it boots into desktop.
But i would need a more permanent solution, because now i allways have to use the same procedure with Super Grub Disk CD to boot into my Fedora 14.
General :: Cloning With The Dd Command - Source Being Copied Onto Bad Sectors On The Destination Disk?
Apr 17, 2011To make a full backup I run a live Knoppix DVD and clone the computer's HDD to an external HDD using the dd command. Is there a possible problem with the source being copied onto bad sectors on the destination disk? If so is there a way to prevent this from happening? A typical dd command I use looks like: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=4096 conv=notrunc,noerror. Is this the recommended command for cloning to a disk of equal size?
View 1 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Monitor Disk Reads Versus Writes?
Jul 2, 2010We are graphing various system parameters using Cacti. One of our graphs shows hard drive reads and writes. A question came up: why do we need this graph?
View 3 Replies View RelatedSoftware :: Get Files From Clonzilla Backup?
Mar 11, 2011I have a clonezilla backup,.. and I'd like to grab some files from it without restoring the whole thing.
View 2 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: "HDD Regenerator" Versus "Disk Utility"
Aug 14, 2011Dist Utility says that my HDD has 65545 bad sectors I checked my HDD by "HDD Regenerator" and it reported no bad sector! which one is correct?
View 9 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Directly Cloning Old HDD To New One?
Mar 28, 2010I was wondering how can I clone old hdd to new hdd directly. Is this right procedure?
sda is new hdd
sdb is old hdd
Code:
sudo sfdisk /dev/sda < sudo sfdisk -d /dev/sdb
cloning ntfs partitions.(X are ntfs partitions)
Code:
sudo ntfsclone --overwrite /dev/sdaX /dev/sdbX
cloning other partitions.
Code:
sudo dd if=/dev/sdbX of=/dev/sdaX bs=8MB
Ubuntu :: Cloning From One Partition To Another?
Aug 10, 2010I had to change my disc for a bigger one, and i want to transfer all my dataconfigurations, etc to a partition in another disk, a simple ctrl C, ctrl V will do or theres a specific tool that i need? I dont want to download all the updates, programs and go through the hassle of reconfiguring everyhtingmy new disk have windows 7 and i installed a fresh ubuntu on it but i want it to be a clone of my old onePS: i just notice now that grub no longer recognize both win7, the old and the new. What's wrong?
View 3 Replies View RelatedUbuntu Installation :: Cloning OEM To 20+ Machines?
Apr 26, 2010We are giving away 20+ machines to 3rd world county and I was asked from the receiving party to install linux on them. What I don't want is to pop a cd into all of them and do the manually install.
I'm thinking of installing one computer the old fashion way and do the OEM-configuration on it afterwards. It would be nice to just clone the hard drives since the computer is identical right down to the hard drive.
Ubuntu :: Cloning Drive With Dd From 10.10 Installer CD
Nov 1, 2010I am trying to clone my internal drive on my laptop using the dd command after starting up my computer using the 10.10 installer CD. Nothing happens when I follow the instructions from this site: [URL] When I follow these instructions, it doesn't work. I know that I am not being specific here but all I can say is that nothing happens. What am I doing wrong. My internal drive is 250GB and the partition I created on my DOS formatted external drive is 250GB as well.
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Apr 13, 2011have a binary image that I can copy to a partition and have done so successfully in the past. The image is smaller than the partition size, and everything is all good. However, I noticed that in copying the 5 gb image to the 9 gb partition there are 4 gb that are unnoticed by the system. It still registers the partition at the correct size in Gparted and Disk Utility.
View 3 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Cloning Or Echoing Files And Folders
Jan 27, 2010I need to backup my data through the cloning or echoing option, which means I want to have my new files/folders in the left copied to the right, replacing older files if that's the case, but I also need the deleted files and folders on the left to be deleted on the right.
I'm using Conduit right now, but it doesn't clone folders/files, also tried Synchrorep but the same issue. Should I try Unison or Rsync? Will they offer this option? Other options?
Ubuntu :: DD And Cloning External Harddrives Of Different Sizes?
Feb 17, 2010In the past, I have used dd to replace (as well as overwrite) hard drives.
If you do a direct clone of a drive, you are supposed to make sure the target drive is the same size as the source drive.
It is quite important that I am able to clone a failing drive (250GB), however, my only other drive available is a completely new 1TB external hard drive from a different manufacturer.
Is it still possible for me to safely clone the failing drive? If yes, how would I go about doing this? Make a 250GB partition on the 1TB drive?
If I use the TB drive as a "temporary backup", and once I have copied over with dd burn everything directly to DVDs, and then restore the TB drive to it's original state, will this be able to be done?
Ubuntu :: Ghosting / Cloning From One Hard Drive To Another
Mar 1, 2010Is there a utility app that will allow 'ghosting' your current Linux harddrive to another. For example, my current drive is 40Gb, I'd like to ghost/clone it to a 320Gb harddrive. Using an app like this saves re-installing the O/S, software, configuration and allows making a disaster-recovery drive.
View 3 Replies View RelatedUbuntu Installation :: Cloning 8.04 To Notebook - No CD - No Boot From USB
Mar 8, 2010I have a busted XP notebook, no CD, no boot from USB. I have the option of booting from network, my provider wants to charge me to set up a static IP address I'm hoping to just plug in to my working 8.04 install with a cat5 cable or through a simple workgroup switch & get the basics installed where would I find such a procedure?
the gateway notbook hangs, part way through the restore [xp] process, I can only get to bios & restore, no dos prompt I don't care about any of the info or having XP I know the HDD may be bad
Ubuntu :: Cloning Drive Speed With Dd Or Ddrescue?
Apr 22, 2010I'm trying to make an image of my whole hard drive (320 GB) to save on an external hard drive. I'm using Ubuntu Jaunty Live CD to do it, with this command
Code:
sudo dd if=/dev/sda | gzip -c > /media/ExpansionDrive/imagedd.img
At the beginning everything is going fine, but after few hours the transfer rate is incredibly low. After 1/2 hour, 20 Gb have been copied.
After 1 hour, 27 GB
After 2 hours, 40 GB
After 4 hours, 54 GB
After 8 hours, 71 GB
Is it normal? I've also tried to use ddrescue, but I have the same problem. Is there any other tool to clone hard drive with a constant transfer rate?
Ubuntu :: Cloning One Partition In Dual Boot
Oct 16, 2010I have a dual boot and every program I try to clone the ubuntu partition seems to want to have the entire hard drive to clone to.In other words, if I attach an external hard drive and select the ext4 Ubuntu Linux to clone to a purposefully made ext4 partition in an external drive - every program wants to copy to the entire external hard drive.Any suggestions?I think that clonezilla allows more freedom but I just dont quite get it - the options seem a little confusing in that I am worried that I will copy the partition back to my actual machine.
I am probably being a bit paranoid, but if anyone can think of a simple program that allows me to simply copy one partition to another purpose made (external) partition then please let me know!!
Debian :: Cloning HDD Partition To SSD
Aug 4, 2011Recently purchased an SSD drive to replace my existing mechanical drive. My source hard drive is a 750gb and destination SSD is 256gb. My current partition setup on my source drive looks like this:
/home 639 GB, 137GB used
/ 46 GB, 6.4GB used
My destination SSD drive's partition table current looks like this:
/home 238 GB
/ 18 GB
I originally was going to use Clonezilla to do the partition copying but found out that the destination partition must be equal or larger than the source one.
General :: Cloning Using Clonezilla On HDD
Jul 28, 2010I want to clone my fedora8 HDD using clonezilla.I have downloaded,and want to boot from that.I have created one partition sda8 with 740 mb and formatted with ext3 and mounted that on /mnt. I have extracted the files onto /mnt from clonezilla zip file. I appended the necessary lines told by website to the grub.menu.lst , after rebooting when i select that clonezilla from grub,it was telling unrecognized format and cant mount the partition.
how to mount the partition permanently in fstab. Tell me how to modify the grub file to work correctly to boot from that partition.
Output of fdisk
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80025280000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa95ea95e
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Programming :: Cloning USB Drives Using C++
Feb 23, 2010I have a device running Linux, which has a master USB and 16 Slave USB's. I need to make the slaves identical to the master.
What i'm doing is reading bytes from the master by reading /dev/sd{master} and writing to /dev/sd{slaves} . I am doing this since I need to display progress of the operation.
Do you think this will pose any problems? Is there any better technique?
Also, if the source drives size is smaller than the dest drive, will it create any problem....or will the USBs still be identical after that..
Ubuntu Installation :: Cloning (10.04 Desktop) From The Old Boot Drive Onto The New SSD?
Oct 2, 2010I would like to replace my old 100gb boot drive in my server with a new SSD...for obvious reasons. So what is the best way to clone the existing installation (10.04 desktop) from the old boot drive onto the new SSD? I have read some guides online that suggest using the live CD and various software packages but most of them say it will only work if you are cloning to a disk of the same size or larger, nobody seems to address taking an installation from a larger volume down to a smaller one - in my case a 100gb IDE onto a 30gb SATA SSD.
As this is a datadump, the only drives I really care about are the various 1.0/1.5tb drives that actually store the data, the OS drive contains nothing more than the standard OS, samba/webmin and a few monitoring tools. So I guess it's not the end of the world for me to start fresh and install 10.10 next week, but I would like to know for the sake of this upgrade and future ones if anyone can be of assistance. basic specs if needed: Athlon64 X2 3800, 2gb DDR500, Asus A8N SLI Premium (Nforce 4/Silicon Image 3114R RAID controller). OS is on a 100gb IDE (WD1000BB-00C) and I would like to toss it on a Kingston 30gb SSD (SNV125-S2/30).