Linux clone??
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 6:26 pm
Okay guys, what's the best way to clone a linux drive?
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Barry wrote:Okay guys, what's the best way to clone a linux drive?
streaker69 wrote:I can tell you, but first you'll have to gather the following items.
5 hogwarts
A potato that's been buried under a Full moon
A Muffler Bearing to a 72 Ford Pinto
A Picture of G8t in Lederhosen
and a Wishbone of a Duck.
streaker69 wrote:Nope, picture has to be just as impossible to get as the rest of the list.
Barry wrote:Okay guys, what's the best way to clone a linux drive?
Dutch wrote:[color="Red"]Question is what you want to do it for ?[/color]
A sector-by-sector backup for forensic investigation ?
Move data from one machine to another ?
Because cloning drives is the new thing taking over from cracking wep ?
As render said, good old dd does the job, but if you want something with a gui like Ghost, look no further than partimage ( http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page ), which often is included in linux distros out of the box.
If you want to go the dd route, this here guide should get you started : http://www.osdev.org/osfaq2/index.php/Disk%20Images%20Under%20Linux
Dutch
Barry wrote:Copy the drive from my laptop to the new box so everything you did to it would be on the other. The problem is, they are different sized drives.
renderman wrote:Don't forget good old DD. Just clone the thing block by block
Chris wrote:This is the method I use.