It may have already been mentioned, but I read about a program called
PartImage (www.partimage.org). It looks like more of an automatic
backup program, but it does all of the backing up and restoring for
you, I think, and I'm pretty sure you can do manual backups. I've
never personally used it thou
so for backuping a gentoo installation on usb disk is still better to build
a stage4 with the script. i need to make a backup working copy of my gentoo
notebook box and i have only one disk drive. that is the real problem with
using dd or clonezilla...
2007/10/8, Brian Litzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 10/8/07, Brian Litzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:17:40AM +0200, Beso wrote:
> > does this work from hd to external usb disk?
>
> dd will not work between disparate media. It is even
> risky between different (capacity, manufacturer) drives.
For my purpose, and I
does this work from hd to external usb disk?
2007/10/7, Brian Litzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 12:49:11AM -0400, Peter Davoust wrote:
> > This may be a little noobish, and it may have been said, but can't you
> > just install the new drive, partition it identically to the
"Peter Davoust" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
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below, on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:49:11 -0400:
> This may be a little noobish, and it may have been said, but can't you
> just install the new drive, partition it identically to the original
> drive and then...
>
> dd if=/dev/hd
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
Wouldn't that work?
-Peter
On 10/6/07, Drake Donahue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> From: "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:
> Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 9:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-
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From: "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Cloning a system drive
weekend update:
Gparted-clonezilla link that works (hard to find now):
http://linux.softpedia.com/prog
On 10/6/07, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
> > and 2) if I do add some form of RAID that it will cause problems for
> > the cloned Win XP installation being it isn't there now.
>
> Well, if you use Linux-kernel RAID, of course you do lose the ability
"Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
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below, on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:43:45 -0700:
> In my case I'm very noise sensitive. I do a lot of audio work and don't
> want additional hard drive noise in here. In my mind that rules out
> multi-drive RAID and I guess I don't s
On 10/5/07, Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Duncan wrote:
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> > What I do is take the opportunity to redesign my partition layouts and
> > the like (altho this time I have most stuff on LVM, which should help
> > next time).
>
> Thi
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Duncan wrote:
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> What I do is take the opportunity to redesign my partition layouts and
> the like (altho this time I have most stuff on LVM, which should help
> next time).
This is good advice in general. If you have never used LVM look into
i
"Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
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below, on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:58:18 -0700:
>My system drive is making some naughty sounding noises to I'm
> thinking I'd better do something fairly quickly. I'm wondering what the
> best solution for this problem is?
>
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