On 6 Oct 2010 at 10:58, Maxime Alarie wrote: Subject: rsync or dd to clone a hard drive? Date sent: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 10:58:50 -0400 From: "Maxime Alarie" <malarie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> <mailto:users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> > > 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? > I'm the maintainer of the g4l project that is a disk imaging program. It is usually used to boot a machine from the cd with a ramdisk, and then can make local or network images using dd and compress. Note: this is a full disk or full partition images. Not a file or directory level image. It also has an option to clone, which is a similar process to you dd option going from one disk to another. ftp://amd64gcc.dyndns.org/g4l-v0.35alpha19.iso ftp://amd64gcc.dyndns.org/g4l-v0.35a19.devel.tar.gz or released version on sourceforge. > Thanks. > > +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 10009860.871197 | EINSTEIN 4660449.360851 ROSETTA 2297938.485565 | ABC 2771227.136067 -- 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
