On 07/31/2010 01:21 PM, Brian Millett wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 12:59 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: >> According to the SMART stats, the single drive in my Fedora server is >> starting to fail. Rather than backup, do a clean install, and rebuild, >> I'd like to try to clone the existing drive to a new one, then swap in >> the new one. >> >> What are the restrictions on doing this and the best way to accomplish >> it? I have the Clonezilla Live CD that I use for backup. Will that do >> it? >> >> Or will a straight dd do it? >> add new drive as PATA slave /dev/sdb >> dd -if /dev/sda -of /dev/sdb >> remove /dev/sda >> change the jumpers on /dev/sdb to match what was /dev/sda >> reboot >> >> In the dd procedure, I'm not sure what to do if sdb is larger than sda. >> >> -- >> -- Steve > > Clonezilla will do a disk to disk clone which is very slick. Which will > fit into your 'dd' scenario. If you can do that, then that is the best. > Otherwise clonezilla can clone to an image which you know. Also see the > fsarchiver application available on systemrescuecd. I've used both with > great success. My personal preference is fsarchiver for partitions and > clonezilla for full disk. > The thing that makes this difficult, at least to me, is that LVM is involved. -- -- Steve -- 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
