Maxime Alarie <malarie <at> processia.com> writes: > > I have never used dd to clone a hard disk. > > I use rsync for a lot of my backups , and I was wondering > what would be the best tool to clone a disk. I don’t want 3rd > party software also. I want built in command line tools. > > I know rsync will resync where it left off if I encounter a > problem, what about dd? Do I absolutely have to creat an image before > cloning? > Ex: dd if=/dev/sda of=sda.img or I can use dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb? > > Thanks. > > Hi, if you want to clone it, take a look at possible tools as discussed in a thread here: 22 Aug 07:08 Suvayu Ali * Migrating data off a failing drive JB -- 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
