[ale] how do I clone a hard drive with clonezilla

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Hi JD, Phil, and others,

Thanks for all the answers.  I'm probably going to take a closer look at dd, dc3dd, pv, and partimage.

Is there an advantage to running sysresccd vs a Ubuntu Live CD?

Sincerely,

Ron


JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

>Check out partimage.  If it knows the file system, it can handle larger
>to
>smaller recoveries.  If it doesn't, then it uses dd too.  It is a
>disk-image
>backup and easy to use.
>
>'man partimage' should answer everything. Google should answer anything
>thing else.
>
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>On 10/25/2012 09:19 AM, Phil Turmel wrote:
>> On 10/25/2012 09:00 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
>>> Hi Phil,
>>>
>>> Thanks for that info.  That brings up a few of more questions.
>>>
>>> a) Will this work even if the target device is the shorter one?
>> 
>> Yes, with two caveats:
>> 1) No partition may extend past the end of the target.
>> 2) If GPT instead of classic DOS partitioning, the backup copy of the
>> GPT will not be copied.  Re-running parted on the copy should offer
>to
>> fix it.
>> 
>>> b) Will it work if the final partition doesn't end on a 1M boundary?
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>>> c) Does it copy the MBR?
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>>> d) What happens if there is a read error on the source or write
>error
>>> on the target?
>> 
>> With dd, it bails out at that point, and reports where it stopped. 
>You
>> can resume with seek= and skip= options, or use 'dd_rescue' or
>> 'ddrescue' instead of 'dd'.
>> 
>>> e) Does it copy partition attributes like "active" and "boot", etc.?
>> 
>> Yes.  These are in the partition table(s).
>> 
>>> f) Will it work if the source file system is mounted, ie, I'm
>running
>>> from the HDD, or do I have to use a live CD?
>> 
>> It should work, but the target fs will likely need an fsck
>afterwards.
>> Some log file corruption would be expected.  I don't do that.
>> 
>>> I never said why I wanted to do this in the original post, but, I
>>> want the target drive to be a backup of the source, so, I could just
>>> swap it in and run it in the event of a failure of the source drive.
>>> In my case, I have both NTFS and EXT4 file systems, and the boot
>>> loader is Win NT.
>> 
>> Yes, although you may get an alert from "Disk Management" that the
>drive
>> serial number is different.  With XP, you get a "new hardware" popup
>and
>> that's it.
>> 
>>> Thanks for the help.
>> 
>> You're welcome.
>> 
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