How to clone HDD in an External HDD in ubuntu 11.04

Dustin Oprea myselfasunder at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 07:19:56 UTC 2012


This might not be what you're looking for, but if the second hard drive is
not the same size, doing a byte-level copy with DD may not be optimal.

You might want to do a "cp -pr" (to copy recursively, along with the
permissions) or an rsync (I think "-a" should do owners, permissions,
recursivity, timestamp copy, etc..).

You can also use rsync to copy to a remote system, but you can also use
SystemImager to create a perfect copy of a hard drive or partition and
deploy it to one or many other locations (like Ghost). However, since
SystemImager is file-level and not byte-level, it easily clones to
hard-drives that aren't necessarily the same size. It also does things like
cloning the data and then changing the IP on the remote system.

Dustin Oprea

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Saikat Saha <saikat.80in at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to clone a HDD to another External HDD in Ubuntu 11.04. Please
> let me know the process for cloning & also the process for extract
> that clone external HDD Image to another system.
>
>
> Regards,
> Saikat Saha
>
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