On 10/06/2010 10:06 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > On 6 Oct 2010 at 10:58, Maxime Alarie wrote: > > Subject: rsync or dd to clone a hard drive? > Date sent: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 10:58:50 -0400 > From: "Maxime Alarie" <malarie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > <mailto:users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> > <mailto:users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> > >> >> I have never used dd to clone a hard disk. >> >> I use rsync for a lot of my backups , and I was wondering what would be the best tool to >> clone a disk. I donât want 3rd party software also. I want built in command line tools. >> >> I know rsync will resync where it left off if I encounter a problem, what about dd? Do I >> absolutely have to creat an image before cloning? Ex: dd if=/dev/sda of=sda.img or I >> can use dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb? >> > > I'm the maintainer of the g4l project that is a disk imaging program. It is > usually used to boot a machine from the cd with a ramdisk, and then can > make local or network images using dd and compress. Note: this is a full disk > or full partition images. Not a file or directory level image. > > It also has an option to clone, which is a similar process to you dd option > going from one disk to another. > > ftp://amd64gcc.dyndns.org/g4l-v0.35alpha19.iso > ftp://amd64gcc.dyndns.org/g4l-v0.35a19.devel.tar.gz > > or released version on sourceforge. > > > >> Thanks. >> >> > > > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor > Guam Community College Computer Center > mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx > http://www.guam.net/home/mikes > Guam - Where America's Day Begins > G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer > http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > > http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) > Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 > Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes > (Total Hours: 287,489) > > BOINC@HOME CREDITS > SETI 10009860.871197 | EINSTEIN 4660449.360851 > ROSETTA 2297938.485565 | ABC 2771227.136067 Just wondering... 1) How does 4GL compare with Clonezilla? 2) Why aren't "backup/restore/image/clone" programs such as (1) above integrated into LiveCDs that have most the Linux core, GUI, Network, ..., support? For the moment, I use rsync for linux copy/clones/moves from source to target partitions for the same hardware, and it works. I do these steps: (1) Boot with LiveCD (2) # rsync -ahHAX <source> <target> Notes: (a) Optionally add 'z' argument if you want compression and add 'v' if you want to see verbosity at the expense of transfer speed. (b) Abruptly stopped? No problem, run the above command again. (c) <source> and/or <target> can be remote devices but they have to be mounted. The <source> ought not be an active running OS, can be mounted to /mnt via LiveCD. The hardware for the <source> & <target> ought to be exactly the same if one expects the <target> OS to be bootable after transfer has completed. I have done this with (a) remote backup source to target and (b) between two identical laptops transfers via LiveCD on both, and it works. (d) I have not tried to create an rsync "image". If it were possible to create an rsync "image" with with FULL acls/permissions/..., how would it be possible to perform an rsync "restore"? I have not tried this. (3) Setting MBR on boot or / (boot integrated) partitions: # grub find /grub/stage1 (or /grub/grub.cfg) root (hX,Y) setup (hX,Y) quit (4) # touch /.autorelabel; reboot (for SELinux) FWIW, Dan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
