Cloning the entire OS image

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Mon Aug 6 15:32:13 UTC 2012


On 6 August 2012 15:35, Ansry User 01 <yrsna.resu01 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> What are the best available options in Ubuntu to clone the entire HDD to external drive and copy that image to new system?? What are the things that needs to be done manually after coping the image to new system?

I have used clonezilla for this.  I recommend disabling any additional
drivers (for graphics cards for example) before making the clone, in
case they cause a problem on the new system.  That assumes your system
will work without them of course.

Colin




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