--- On Sat, 7/31/10, Steven Stern <subscribed-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Steven Stern <subscribed-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Best way to replace a drive with a clone
> To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Saturday, July 31, 2010, 10:59 AM
> 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?
Best way is subjective :(, There is no "Best way", however there are ways to do it :)
> I have the Clonezilla Live CD that I use for
> backup. Will that do
> it?
>
Clonezilla will do it, provided that the new drive is the same size or bigger :)
The "bad thing" might be?, that Clonezilla also copies the "bad sectors" of the original hard drive?, but I am not sure though :(
>
> Or will a straight dd do it?
>
This could do it, but I would prefer Clonezilla :)
> 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
> --
Regards,
Antonio
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