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Re: Clone Hard Drive, What Y'all Like?

Newsgroups comp.os.linux.setup
From TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com>
Subject Re: Clone Hard Drive, What Y'all Like?
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Organization telenet.be
Date 2011-05-06 17:49 +0200

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On 2011-05-01, the following emerged from the brain of 7:
> Nobody wrote:
>
>> Hey Group,
>> 
>> I have an old CompUsa house brand server running Mandriva 10.0 that
>> I am going to move this weekend to a new Dell T110 with an SAS 6
>> controller and a RAID 1 set.  The single SATA drive on the CompUsa
>> machine is treated as SCSI and shows up as SDA .
>> 
>> So what might work?  Clonezilla?
>> 
>> I am going to boot with the LiveDVD of Mandriva 10.0 to verify
>> Megaraid SAS support.
>> 
>> Thanks, Robert A. Ober
>
>
> Back up all your data with a 1 or 2Tb drive - costs £40 to £65 and
> well worth using the hard disk as a 'backup tape' and dumping it
> somewhere.
>
> The simplest command is dd for copying.  Google to find how to use
> dd command.  Binary copy every byte to a single file (or to another
> drive).  You can then later mount that single file as a drive.

Biggest drawback of dd: the back-up image will have the same size as
the source HDD. I favor dump/restore for complete system back-ups and
dd to back-up the MBR.

Clonezilla uses partimage, which can be used perfectly fine by itself.
It's a pretty good tool as well.

-- 
Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead.
	~ Butch

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Clone Hard Drive, What Y'all Like? Nobody <nobody@nobody.com> - 2011-04-29 12:17 -0500
  Re: Clone Hard Drive, What Y'all Like? unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-04-29 17:37 +0000
    Re: Clone Hard Drive, What Y'all Like? Nobody <nobody@nobody.com> - 2011-04-29 13:55 -0500
      Re: Clone Hard Drive, What Y'all Like? unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-04-29 19:35 +0000
        Re: Clone Hard Drive, What Y'all Like? Nobody <nobody@nobody.com> - 2011-04-29 21:42 -0500
  Re: Clone Hard Drive, What Y'all Like? 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2011-05-02 00:55 +0100
    Re: Clone Hard Drive, What Y'all Like? TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com> - 2011-05-06 17:49 +0200

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