[Tfug] right way to clone in linux

[Bowie J. Poag]

Or, you can do it so the cloning process takes less than a week to do:

add bs=1048576 to the command, or any other fashionable large number. 

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On May 19, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Kyle Scofield <kyle.scofield at gmail.com> wrote:

> If the drives are the same size, use dd.
> 
> dd if=/dev/source_drive of=/dev/destination_drive
> 
> Will do a byte by byte copy of everything, the MBR, partition table, etc.
> 
> --Kyle
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Paul Lemmons <paul at lemmons.name> wrote:
>> -------- Original Message  --------
>> 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.
>> 
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