[Tfug] right way to clone in linux

[Paul Lemmons]

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Subject: Re: [Tfug] right way to clone in linux
From: Zack Williams <zdwzdw at gmail.com>
To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
Date: 05/18/2011 11:19 PM

>> What's the 'right way' to clone a drive?  FreeBSD used dump/restore, I
>> just tried that on my ubuntu box, and it failed massively...(well, ok,
>> dump/restore seemed to proceed as per bsd, but the new disk isn't
>> bootable, so I assume I have to at minimum perform some grub magik, or
>> something).
>

I am coming into this thread late so it might have already been offered 
as an option, but have you tried clonezilla? I have heard good things 
about it.