Backup and restore onto different hard drive

[Ryan Ralph]

I think I can manage to work out the grub stuff.

Is it possible to guarantee all data will be copied exactly or is that what
the -a option does?
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Ryan Ralph
ryanralph1991 at gmail.com


On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Matthew Hannigan <mlh at zip.com.au> wrote:

> I'd use the -a option to cp rather than dd.
> dd preservies/copies far more than you want or need, and requires
> you to resize afterwards.
>
> So..
>
>
>    cd source && cp -a . destination
>
>
> Are you ok with the grub stuff?
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:06:44AM +1100, Ryan Ralph wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Was just wondering if someone could explain to me how the best way to go
> > about backing up my setup at the moment.
> >
> > What I need to do is do is take a "ghost image" (windows term) of my
> 120gb
> > hard drive that ubuntu is currently installed on and then restore it onto
> > one of my newer 500gb drives.
> >
> > I was thinking that I could try using dd, copy the backup to one of the
> > 500gb drives, then restore it to the other 500gb drive and resize the
> > partition if required. This seems like it would be quite time consuming.
> >
> > Does anyone know a better way? If not could someone please explain what
> > commands I would need to use for dd?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
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>
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